FLOWERING SHRUBS 



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propagating time, July and August, is undoubtedly the best, there 

 being at that time an abundant supply of half-ripe wood hardened 

 by the sun. There is a disadavantage in making the cuttings too 

 large, and we find that 3 inches in length is the most successful, as 

 they have to negotiate two months' hot weather, very trying to 

 large cuttings. 



PRUNUS 



Beside Prunus Pissardt, which we have already dealt with under 

 standard trees, there are other varieties of considerable merit as 

 spring-flowering trees. P. triloba stands almost by itself among 

 them as being in every way desirable. 

 " Sinensis " and its varieties, double 

 white and double rose, are also well 

 known. " Spinosa purpurea" has 

 foliage as dark as Pissardi, with small 

 pink multitudinous flowers on a 

 close and compact growth. Then, 

 too, there are varieties of the " Pis- 

 sardi " type, with its dark foliage 

 but double flowers. Of these are 

 Blirieana fl. pi. peach-pink and 

 semi-double and Moseri fl. pi. pink 

 semi-double. All the prunus may be 

 propagated by budding in the same 

 way as P. Pissardi, which see. 



PYRUS 



Pyrus malus floribundus is a typical 

 spring flowering shrub or tree which 

 is nothing less than exquisite. There 

 are several of the " malus " type, 

 single and double, every one of 

 which is equally praiseworthy. They 

 include the ornamental crabs, and 

 though usually grown as standards 

 FIG. 19 they are very effective as shrubs, es- FIG. 20 



Prunus blirieana pecially when grown in Solus posi- Pyrus malus 



