TREES AND SHRUBS 



EVERGREEN THORN, CraUegiis Pyracantha. 



Walls, gardens. May. This is one of the most showy of all evergreens 

 in winter, and when covered with its large clusters of brilliant orange-scarlet 

 berries, so beloved of birds, is well deserving of its name "Fire Thorn," or 

 the " Buisson-ardent " of our Gallic neighbours. Pruning should be done in 

 February, cutting away those shoots that have borne berries. 



Flowers white, in a dense corymbose cyme; Fruit a pome, globose, size 

 of pea, orange-scarlet, persistent through winter. 



Leaves alternate, ovate-lanceolate, acute, crenate, petiolate, stipulate, 

 glabrous. 



An evergreen wall-shrub, 20 ft. ; or dense busk, 10 ft. 



Introduced from S. Europe, 1629. Syns. Mespilus Pyi'acantha, Cotoneaster 

 Pyj-acantlui, Py7ricantlia coccinea. 



TANSY-LEAVED THORN, CraUvgus tanacetifblia. 



Gardens. May, June. The large, much-divided leaves and the densely 

 hairy twigs and fruits give this tree a character of its own. 



Flowers white, fragrant, in a corymbose cyme; Calyx-lobes acute, reflexed, 

 hairy, much divided, epicalyx glandular ; Stamens small, brown ; Fruit a pome, 

 I in. diam., globose, often 5-ribbed, greenish-yellow, hairy, 5 bony seeds. 



Leaves alternate, deeply pinnatifid, lobes oblong, acute, glandular, serrate, 

 downy on both surfaces, dark green above, lighter below, 2} ins. long, 1] in. 

 broad, petioles downy. 



A deciduous tree, 12-30 ft. ; Tzvigs densely hairy ; Bark corky and flaking. 



Introduced from the Levant, 1789. 



SMALL-FRUITED COTONEASTER, Cotoneaster affinis. 



Gardens. April, May. The Cotoneasters vary from large shrubs or small 



trees to dwarf or prostrate bushes. All are useful for the shrubbery, and some 



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