145G 



enng . 





Subgenus IV. CHA>i.«AJiTGr)AH's (inchuling Micro- 

 cerasusj. Dwarf Almond. 



Fruit small, either firm or juicy, glabrous or pubes- 

 cent: plant dwarf, with sessile flowers solitary or in 

 pairs preceding the Ivs., the stamens 20 or more, the 

 calyx-tube tubular: Ivs. couduplicate. 



36. inc4na, Decne. (V^rasus incAna, Spach. 

 Amfigdnlitx i,ir,}n::. Pall. A. tiAna, v&r. incAna, 

 Loud.). Shnil. of UMdium size: Ivs. small, the 



and glandless or bear- 

 >p, the blade obovate- 

 liptic, short-pointed or 

 1, white-tomentose beneath 

 : with the Ivs. or just in ad 

 dor, about % in. across, the 

 ght red, the size of a pea 

 •n Eu. and western Asia. K 



ing gliiiids at ih, 

 oblong, fll.|iti.- .ir 

 obtuse, llii. I\ sliar 

 fls. mcstly ill L'-. ^ 

 Vance of th. m. h- 

 petals eniarLMiiaii- 

 smooth, juicy. Soi 

 H. 1853:281. B.R. 25:58. Gt. 44, p. 243 (leaf 



37. n&na, Stokes (A m ygdaUts 

 niJiiti, Linn.). Russian Almond. 

 Fig. 2002. Bush, 3 to 5 ft. high : 

 flowers solitary, appearing a little 

 in advance of the leaves, sessile, 

 pink and showy : Ivs. narrowly 

 elliptic or elliptic lanceolate, 2 or 

 3 in. long, thick and rather stiff, 

 scarcely pointed, lighter colored 

 and the veins prominent beneath, 

 smooth, the edges set with sharp, 

 spreading, saw-like teeth: fls. usu- 

 ally solitary, rose-color, nearly 1 in. 

 across, with or just preceding the 

 Ivs.: fruit small and hard, pubes- 

 cent, bitter, with a large, wrinkled, 

 sharp-pointed, somewhat cordate, 

 unequal -sided pit. Russia and 

 Western Asia. B.M. 101. L.B.C. 

 12:1114. — This plant has been in- 

 troduced into this country recently 

 as a fruit plant, although it pos- 

 sesses little merit for that purpose 

 It is cultivated in Europe for its 

 flowers, and it has been thought 1999. 

 that the Flowering Almond of our ( ) 



PRUNUS 



ens belongs to it; but our Flow- 

 Almonds are Prunus Japonica 

 P. triloba, a correction which 

 made in the revised edition of 

 's "Field, Forest and Garden Bot- 

 This Russian Almond is very 

 enduring the climate of the 

 northern prairie states, where it ripens 

 " little almond-like fruits in July. A 

 fruited form of the Apricot (P. 

 Armeniaca) has lately been in- 

 troduced as Russian Almond. 

 Prunus tutnit is cultivated in 

 two or three forms. Var. cam- 

 p68tri» has white fls. of larger 

 size. Var. Gebrgica has dark 

 rose-colored somewhat smaller 

 fls. and narrower, longer Ivs. 

 Var. Cochinchin6nsis is a larger 

 plant with white fls. 

 Subgenus V. Amtgdalus. 



Almonds and Peaches. 

 Fruit sessile, large, mostly 

 pubescent : fls. solitary from 

 lateral buds on the previous 

 year's growth, appearing in ad- 

 ance of the Ivs., the latter couduplicate in the bud. 

 A. Plant low and bnshif : Flowering Almonds. 

 Japbnica, Thunb. (P. n&na of American gardens. 

 P. JSinensis, Hort. Amygdalus piimila, Sims). Figs. 

 2002,2003. Bushy plant, rarely over 5 ft. high: Ivs. ovate- 

 lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, not at all in- 

 clined to be lobed, glabrous or nearly so, very strongly 

 veined beneath, closely and almost obtusely serrulate: 

 fls. solitary or in 2's and 3's, rose-colored or blush, 

 stalked (the stalks lengthening), appearing with the 

 Ivs.: fr. glol.nlar ..r "li'Tt-oblong, % in. in diam., 



smooth and -1 l -i. i li. Cult, from Japan, but 



probably nati. i , i;M. 2176. R.H. 1852:301; 



1873, p. 457; l-,i i i i-7r,:290; 1884:156; 1886, p. 



416; 1887, p. i:;i- l-.inn.v i ;ii. 38, p. 605; 50, p. 313.- 

 This is the cin.imonest Flowering Almond of 

 dens, giving a profusion of attractive bloom in early 



iil\ in th( ijuble 

 I rni Ihtri is con 

 M I rat le doubt as to 

 tliL api lication of the 

 two names P Japan 

 If I and P Sineiisii 

 Carrifere supposes 

 (R.H. 1874, p. 451) 

 that there are 



species, and he says JOOO. Prunus Vireiniana. 

 that the true P. "' 

 tifHSts is worth culti- -- --' 



vating for the edible qualities of its fruit as 

 well as for its flowers. Until the question is 

 cleared up by further investigations of abo- 

 riginal types, the writer prefers to leave the 

 subject as above, thereby agreeing with most 

 writers on these plants. 



39. triloba, Lindl. (AmUgdahis pedunculAta, Bunge, 

 Amygdalipsis LIndleyi, Carr. Prunipsia Undleyi. 

 Andr^). Flowering Plum. Fig. 2002. Differs from the 

 last in having broadly ovate or obovate soft-hairy Ivs., 

 which are abruptly pointed, coarsely doubly serrate, 

 tending to be lobed above (on strong shoots): fls. soli- 

 tary and mostly in advance of the Ivs., pink or rose-col- 

 ored, sometimes white, usually double: fr. small, red- 



