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DF.SCKHTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



of these characteristics. Many of the species are apt to be thorny. The 

 blossoms are single with 5 petals and many stamens, like the peach ; or 



FIG. -04. English Laurel. 



double, like the flowering almond. 

 lie 1 1 >re the leaves expand. 



FIG. 205. Mock Orange. 



Nearly all bloom in spring, some 

 [Seeds ; grafting of varieties.] 



KEY TO SMALL BUSHY FORMS OF PRUNUS CUL- 

 TIVATED FOR FLOWERS AND FOLIAGE MORE 

 THAN FOR FRUIT 



* Leaves deciduous ; flowers solitary or in umbel-like clusters. (A.) 

 A. Plant usually very thorny ; fruit, if formed, small ( inch or less), 

 purple or yellow, covered with bloom like a plum ; leaves blunt ; 

 low spreading bushes. (B.) 



B. Fruit, if formed, small, pea-like, and inedible, hanging on until 

 winter; leaves very numerous and small. BLACKTHORN (198) 



- Primus spinosa. 



B. Fruit flattened at ends, inch long ; flowers abundant, before 

 the leaves; branches rough and warty. BEACH PLUM (199) 

 Primus marftima. 

 B. Fruit 'large (f-lj inches) globular; leaves in the ornamental 



