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ARBORETUM ET 1<R L I'lCETlIM BRITANNICUM. 



Floiuers white, disposed in terminal corymbose panicles. Fruit small, 

 smooth. Evergreen trees ; natives of Asia and America, requiring the 

 same garden treatment as ftatae^gus ("on which all the species may be 

 grafted), except that the species are somewhat more tender, and are best 

 grown against a wall even in the climate of London. 



1. P. serrula'ta Li7uU. The seivvXaXed- leaved Photinia. 



Identification. Lindl. in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. p. 103. ; Dec. Pro4, 2. p. 631.; and Don's Mill 2 



p. 602. 

 Syiionyme. CratiE''KUS glabra Thunb. Fl. Jap. 205., Sot. Mag., Lodd. Bot. Cab., Colla Hart. Ripul. 

 Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 210.i. ; Bot. Cab., t. 248.; Colla Hort. Ripul., t. 36. ; the plate of this 



species in Axh. Brit., 1st edit., vol.vi. ; and our ^g^. 733. 



733. Photfnia semilata. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves oblong, acute serrulated. Pedicels longer than the 

 calyx. Buds large, red. (Z)<'c. Prod.) An evergreen shrub or low tree. Ja- 

 pan and China. Height 12 ft. to 15 ft. Introduced in 1804. Flowers 

 white ; April and May. Fruit ? ; rarely produced in England. 



The young shoots and leaves are remarkable for their deep red, or ma- 

 hogany colour ; and the decaying leaves exhibit this colour much more in- 

 tensely, mixed with a fine yellow or scarlet. Altogether it forms a very 

 splendid plant, when trained against a wall ; or, in warm sheltered situations, 

 as a standard. It is connnonly grafted or budded on thorn stocks ; and it 

 also docs well upon quince stocks. In the neighbourhood of London it flowers 

 between the middle of April and the middle of May ; but it has not vet pro- ! 

 duced fruit in England. The largest and oldest plants are at White Knights, j 

 where it was planted in 1804; and, in 1835, formed a large bush or tree, 1 

 nearly 15 ft. high. | 



2. P. .^RBUTiFO^LiA Li7idL The Arbutus-leaved Photinia. , 



Irlrnlification. Lftidl. in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. p. 103. ; Dee. Prod., 2. p. 631. ; Don's Mill., 2. p- GO* , 



Synonymc. Crataj^gus nrbutifftlia Ail. Hort. Keu'. ed. 2. vol. 3. p. 232. ) 



' Kngravings. Bot. Reg., t. 491 . ; and our Jig. 734. 



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