XXVI. ROSA^CEJE : ce'rasus. 

 B. Species or Varieties cultivated as ornaviental or curious. 



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% 3. C. (v.) SEMPERFLO^RENS Dec. The ever-flowering Cherry Tree. 



Identification. Dec. FI. Fr., 4. p. 481., and Prod., 2. p. 537. ; Don's Mill., 2 p. 13. 



Synomjwes. PrOnus semperfldrens Ehrh. Beitr. 7. p. 132. ; P. seiotina Both Catal. 1. p. .58. ; the 



vfceping Cherry, the Allsaints Cherry ; Cerise de la Toussaint, Cerise de St. Martin, Cerise 



tardive, Fr. 

 Engravings. N. Du Ham., p. 30. No. 18. t. 5. f A ; the plate in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. v, ; and 



GUI yi^. 449. 



449. <%rasus (v.) semperfldrens. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Branches drooping. Leaves ovate, serrated, 

 triided late in the season, axillary, solitary. Calyx serrated, 

 and red. Its native country not known. (Dec. Prod.) A 

 tree. Height 10 ft. to 20 ft. A garden produc- s--t^..\ 

 tion. Cultivated in '? 1700. Flowers white ; May. ^^-^'^^<-_ 

 Drupe red : July and August. 



An ornamental tree, usually grafted standard high 

 >n the common wild cherry, or gean ; growing 

 apidly for 8 or 10 years, and forming a round 

 lead, 8 or 10 feet higli, and 10 or 12 feet in diameter, 

 ivith the extremities of the branches drooping to 

 ^he ground ; and flowering and fruiting almost the 

 !!?hole summer. It forms a truly desirable small single 

 ;ree for a lawn. 



4. C. serrulaVa G. Don. The serrulated-Z^averf 

 Cherry Tree. 



dentificalion. Hort. Brit., p. 480. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 514. 

 \ynonymes. Priinus serrulfita Litidl. Hort. Trans. 7. p. 238. ; 

 ( double Chinese Cherry ; Yung- To, Chinese. 

 ingraving. Our Jig. 450. from a living specimen. 



Flowers pro- 

 Fruits globos, 

 low pendulous 



450. Cftrasus scrruL^ta. 



