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PART III. 



joints, at which it readily strikes root ; and is, consequently, very easily 

 propagated. It has been tried by Mr. Knight, as a fruit tree; and he finds 

 that it forces in pots better than any other variety. In the year 1824, 

 a plant in a pot, in the peach-house of the London Horticultural Society's 

 Garden at Chiswick, produced a crop of fruit, which ripened within 50 

 days from the time the blossoms opened. Mr. Knight tried some ex- 

 periments with this tree, in his hot-houses at Downton Castle; where 

 he found that, in a hot moist climate, it put out very numerous roots 

 from the bases of its young branches ; and that it might be very readily 

 propagated by cuttings of these branches. (See Hort. Trans., vol. vii., 

 or Gard. Mag., vol. iii. p. 182.) The tree is a desirable one for small gar- 

 dens, on account of its very early flowering; and should be grouped along 

 with ^rmeniaca sibirica, which flowers a little before it, being the earliest 

 of the apricots and plums. 



sfe 6. C. CHAM^CE'RASUS Lois. The Ground Cherry Tree, or Siberian 



Cherry. 



Identification. Lois, in N. Du Ham., 5. p. 29. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 537. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 513. 

 Synonymes. C. intermedia Lois, in N. Du Ham., 5. p. 30. ; Prunus intermedia Pair. DM., 5. 



p. 674. ; P. fruticbsa Pall,, according to Besser ; C^rasus pumila C. Bank., according to Pall. Fl. 



Ross. ; Cliamascerasus frutic6sa Pers. Syn., 2. p. 34. 

 Engravings. N. Du Ham., 5. p 29. t. 5. f. A ; Hayne Abbild., t. 61. ; and our fig. 408. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves ovate-oblong, glabrous, 

 glossy, crenate, bluntish, rather coriaceous, scarcely 

 glanded. Flowers in umbels, which are usually 

 on peduncles, but short ones. Pedicels of the 

 fruit longer than the leaves. Fruit round, reddish 

 purple, very acid. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 537.) A 

 shrub, growing to the height of 3ft. or 4 ft., a native 

 of Siberia and Germany, introduced in 1587, and 

 producing its white flowers in May, and ripening its 

 fruit in August. It forms a neat little narrow-leaved 

 bush, which, when grafted standard high, becomes 

 a small round-headed tree, with drooping branches, 

 at once curious and ornamental. It does not 

 grow above a fourth part of the size of C. sem- 

 perflorens ; and, like it, it flowers and fruits during 

 great part of the summer. 



-* 7. C. PROSTRA'TA Ser. The prostrate Cherry Tree. 



Identification. Seringe in Dec. Prod., 2. p. 538. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 514. 



Synonymes. Prunus prostrata Lab. PI. Syr. Dec., 1. p. 15., Lois, in N. Du Ham., 5. p. 182. ; yfmyg- 



dalu's incana Pall. Fl. Ross., 1. p. 13., according to Loiseleur; Prunus incana Steven in Mem. Soc. 



Mosq., 3. p. 263. 

 Engravings. N. Du Ham., 5. t. 53. f. 2. ; Pall. Fl. Ross., 1. t. 7., according to Loiseleur ; Bot. Mag., 



t. 136. ; and our fig. 409. 



Spec. Char., $c. Decumbent. 

 Leaves ovate, serrately cut, 

 glaridless, tomentose, and 

 hoary beneath. Flowers 

 mostly solitary, nearly ses- 

 sile. Calyx tubular. Petals 

 ovate, retuse, rose-coloured. 

 Fruit ovate, red; flesh thin. 

 (Dec. Prod.,u. p. 538.) A 

 prostrate shrub, a native of 

 the mountains of Candia, of 

 Mount Lebanon, and of Si- 

 beria. It was introduced in 1802, and produces its rose-coloured flowers 

 in April and May. There are plants of it in Loddiges's arboretum. 



8. C. PERSICIFO V LIA Lois. The Peach-tree-leaved Cherry Tree. 



i., 5. p. 9. ; 

 Synonymes. Prunus persicif blia Deaf. Arh., 2. p. 205. 



