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Commercial Mnfisfics. Seedlings for stocks, fit for transplanting, are 5*. 

 PIT 100; and grafted and budded plants, dwarfs, from 1*. to \s.6<l. each; and 

 standards from 2*. to 2s. 6d. each. The French white is 2s. (><-/. for dwarfs, 

 and 5s. for standards. At Bollwyller, the double-flowered varieties are 80 

 cents each, and the fruit trees from 50 cents to 2 francs each. 



B. Species cultivated as ornamental or curious Trees or Shrubs. 

 3. C. (v.) SEMPERFLO'RENS Dec. The ever-flowering Cherry Tree. 



Identification. Dec. Fl. Fr., 4. p. 481., and Prod., 2. p. 537. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 1 ;. 



Synonymes. Prunus semperflbrens Ehrh. lieitr., 7. p. 132. ; P. serotina Hot/iCatal.,l.p.5S; the 



weeping Cherry, the Allsaints Cherry ; Cerise de la Toussaint, Cerise de St. Martin, Cerise tardive, 



Fr. 

 Engravings. N. Du Ham., p. 30. No. 18. t. 5. f. A ; and the plate in our Second Volume. 



Spec. Char., $c. Branches drooping. Leaves ovate, serrated. Flowers pro- 

 truded late in the season, axillary, solitary. Calyx serrated. Fruit globose 

 and red. Its native country not known. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 537.) An 

 ornamental tree, usually grafted standard high on the common wild cherry, 

 or gean ; growing rapidly for 8 or 10 years, and forming a round head, 8 ft. 

 or 10ft. high, and 10ft. or 12ft. in diameter, with the extremities of the 

 branches drooping to the ground ; and flowering and fruiting almost the 

 whole summer. It forms a truly desirable small single tree for a lawn. A 

 specimen in the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, 50 years planted, is 27ft. high. 



f 4. C. SERRULA'TA G. Don. The serrulated-leaved Cherry Tree. 



Identification. Hort. Brit., p. 480. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 514. 



Synonymes. Prunus serrulkta Lindl. Hort. Trans., 1. p. 238. ; the double Chinese Cherry ; Yung.To, 



Chinese. 

 Engravings. OUT fig. 406. 



Spec. Char. $c. Leaves obovate, acuminated, 

 setaceously serrulated, quite glabrous. Pe- 

 tioles glandular. Flowers in fascicles. (Don's 

 Mill., ii. p. 514.) The flowers are white, 

 slightly tinged with red, and double, though 

 not so much so as the double French, 

 (p. 693.) The tree is a native of China, much 

 resembling the common cherry tree, but 

 not of such vigorous growth ; and only the 

 double-flowered variety of it has been yet 

 introduced. It was brought to England in 

 1822, and is singularly ornamental, flowering 

 in April. There are several trees of it in the 

 London Horticultural Society's Garden, from 

 6 ft. to 10 ft. high ; but it will probably grow 

 much higher. 



5. C. PSEU N DO-CE'RASUS Lindl. The False Cherry Tree. 



Identification. Hort. Brit, No. 12663. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 514. 



Synonymes. Prunus Pseudo-Cerasus Lindl. Hort. Trans., 6. p. 90. ; P. paniculata Ker Bot. Res., 



800., but not of Thunb. 

 Engravings. Bot. Reg., t 800. ; and our fig. 407. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves obovate, acuminate, flat, serrated. 

 Flowers racemose. Branches and peduncles pubescent. 

 Fruit small, pale red, of a pleasant subacid flavour, with 

 a small smooth stone. (Don's Mill., ii. p. 514.) A low 

 tree, a native of China, where it is called by the same 

 name as C. serrulata. It was introduced in* 1819, and 

 grows to the height of 8ft. or 10ft. The flowers are 

 produced before those of any of the other cherries, and 

 generally about the end of March, or the beginning of 

 April. The tree is readily known from the other cherry 

 trees, even when without its leaves, by its rough gibbous 



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