TREES AND SHRUBS 



SIMON'S COTONEASTER, Cotoneaster Simonsii. 



Gardens. April — June. This is one of the most effective and charming 

 shrubs in the autumn when the long slender branches are wreathed with 

 orange-scarlet berries and the foliage is a glowing crimson. The plants are 

 inclined to become " leggy " and bare at the base, but if cut down to the 

 ground vigorous shoots will quickly spring up, and will be laden with 

 berries in the second year. 



Floxvers white, deeply tinted with pink when young and in bud ; solitary 

 and terminal, or in cijmcH of 2-4, on short lateral branches, nearly sessile ; 

 Fruit a drupe, turbinate, abundant, orange-scarlet, ripe in September, per- 

 sistent all winter. 



Leaves alternate, ovate or rhombic-orbicular, acuminate, mucronate, ciliated, 

 glabrous and dark green upper surface, silky beneath, f in. long. Autumn 

 tint crimson. 



A sub-evergreen shrub, 5-8 ft. as a standard, or 12 ft. on a wall ; young 

 shoots hairy. 



Native of Himalaya; introduced 1850. 



SERVICE BERRY, Amelanchier ahifoUa. 



Gardens. This deciduous shrub is distinguished from the next species 

 by its denser racemes of white blossoms, its larger fruits, and its dark green, 

 broader and shorter leaves, the blades of which are toothed on the terminal 

 half only. April, IMay. 



/^/oitrr.y white, in an erect, rather dense raceme, \-l\ in. long, pedicels short, 

 villose, bracteoles acute; Calyx 5-partite, cup-shaped, persistent, tomentose to 

 glabrous, lobes linear, acute ; Petals 5, oblong to obovate, rounded or acute, 

 glabrous, ^-1 in. long ; Stamens about 20, in 3 rows, filaments subulate, anthers 

 oblong; Ovarij inferior, adnate to calyx-tube, 5-celled ; Fruit a pome, sub- 

 globose, ^-1 in. diam. ; dark blue to nearly black, glaucous bloom, sweet, 



juicy ; seeds 5-10, red-brown. 



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