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a garden near Edinburgh, which once belonged to the Regent Murray. 

 It is very old, and its branches have somewhat of a drooping cha- 

 racter ; but whether sufficiently so to constitute a variety worth 

 propagating as a distinct kind appears to us very doubtful. (Lodd.) 



C. O. 5 Ceisiana. Hort. is also somewhat fastigiate in its habit ; but it is 

 a much more slender-growing plant; and we have never seen a spe- 

 cimen in a situation where it could display its natural form and mode 

 of growth. 



C. O. 6 capitata Smith of Ayr differs from the species chiefly in being 

 of a somewhat more fastigiate habit, and in producing its "flowers in 

 close heads, mostly at the extremities of its branches. 



C. O. 1 jiexuosa Smith of Ayr has the small branches twisted in a zig- 

 zag manner. Horticultural Society's Garden. 



B. 



Varieties differing in the Colour of the Flowers. 



t C. O. 8 rosea Hort. ; E'pinier Marron, Fr. (fg.725. in p. 401.) ; has 

 the petals pink, with white claws, and is a well-known and very 

 beautiful variety. 



^ C. O. 9 jninicea Lodd. Cat., C. O. rosea sup^rba Hort., has larger pe- 

 tals, which are of a dark red, and without white on the claws. 



C. Varieties differing in the Develop ement or Strticture of the Flowers. 



Y C. O. 10 midtiplex Hort., C. 0. flore pleno Hort. {fig. 722. in p. 401.), 

 has double white flowers, which die off of a beautiful pink ; and 

 which, being produced in great profusion, and lasting a long time, 

 render this a most desirable variety : accordingly, it is to be found 

 in almost every shrubbery and garden. 



"f CO.]] punicea fibre plena Hort. Flowers double, nearly as dark and 

 brilliant as C. O. punicea. Imported in ? 1832, by Mr. Masters of 

 Canterbury. 



'^ C. O. 12 vionbgyna, C. monogyna Jacq., has flowers with only one 

 style, like C. O. sibirica, but does not flower early like that variety. 



'^ C. O. 13 apetala Lodd. Cat, This remarkable variety has the flowers 

 without petals, or very nearly so. 



D. 



Varieties differing in the Time of Floiuering. 



C 



CO. 14 prcecox Hort., the Glastonbury Thorn, comes into leaf in 



January or February, and sometimes even in autumn ; so that occa- 

 sionally, in mild seasons, it may be in flower on Christmas-day. 



'. O. 15 sibirica, C. sibirica Lodd. Cat., C. monogyna L. ..A 



(fig. 665.), is an early leafing variety, a native of'Siberia. "^ "^' 



In mild seasons, it begins to i)ut forth its leaves in 



January; and in dry summers it 



loses them proportionately soon 



in the autumn. On account of 



its early leafing and flowering, it 



well merits a place in collections. 



The flowers have only one style ; x^o:. 



but, as there are other varieties ^S 



having only one style which do 



not flower early, we have not 



adopted Linnaeus's name of C. 



monogyna to this variety, but 



to another, a native of Britain, 



which does not flower earlier than the common hawthorn. 

 C. O. 16 transylvdnica Booth, from the pknt in the Hort, Soc. Garden, 



appears to be nearly, if not quite, the same as C. O. sibirica. 



665. C, O. sibirica. 



