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KEKKIA KETELEERIA 



Var. VARIEGATA, ZabeL Like the type in habit, but scarcely so vigorous ; 

 its leaves are deeply and irregularly margined with white. It flowers more or 

 less during the whole summer, but is scarcely so hardy as the'type. 



The Kerria has long been culti- 

 vated in Japan, and its existence there 

 was known as long ago as 1700, but 

 the double - flowered form (the first 

 introduced) did not reach England 

 until 1804, when it was introduced 

 to Kew by Wm. Kerr, a plant collector 

 sent out from that establishment the 

 previous year to China. As the repro- 

 ductive parts were wanting, its botani- 

 cal affinities could only be surmised, 

 and it was called "Corchorus japoni- 

 cus," a name which still clings to it in 

 establishments somewhat behind the 

 times. Corchorus is a genus allied to 

 the lindens. When the single-flowered 

 typical plant was introduced in 1834 

 by Mr Reeves, and blossomed two or 

 three years later, it was seen to belong 

 to the rose family, and was then named 

 Kerria by De Candolle. This species, 

 the only one of its genus known, is a 

 native of China, and is only naturalised 

 or cultivated in Japan. It was collected 

 in flower and fruit by Wilson in W. 

 Hupeh, China, in 1900, and earlier by 

 Henry. 



The typical Kerria is a beautiful 

 shrub when in flower, and quite hardy, 

 thriving in good loamy soil. It is 

 easily increased by moderately soft 

 cuttings placed in brisk bottom heat. 

 The variegated form needs a sheltered 

 spot. All the Kerrias are benefited 

 by an occasional thinning out of old 

 stems. 



KEKKIA JAPONICA. 



KETELEERIA FORTUNEI, Carriere. CONIFER/E. 



(Abies Fortune!, Murray ; Gardeners' Chronicle, 1884, i., figs. 64-7.) 



An evergreen tree, probably 100 ft. high, with horizontal branches; 

 young shoots furnished with down which persists to the second or third 

 year; winter buds small, the basal scales with long, free, linear points, 

 Leaves linear, i to i-J- ins. long, -jV to -I in. wide; flat, pointed, 

 broadest near the base, where they are abruptly narrowed to a short stalk ; 

 shining green on both sides, with twelve to sixteen stomatic lines beneath, 



