Trees and Shrubs 



Prunus sinensis. 



PRUNUS (Plum). 



The Plum is one of our earliest 

 flowering trees, often opening its 

 showers of pink and white blossoms 

 early in January. It forms a most 

 handsome tree and should be seen in 

 the landscape much more commonly 

 than it is, growing freely in any fairly 

 good soil and requiring no irrigation if 

 the soil is kept loose and free from 

 weeds. 



The first to bloom is the Prunus 

 pissardii (a native of Persia) having 

 white flowers tinted with pink, while, a 

 little later, its reddish-purple leaves and, 



in the Fall, its handsome light-red fruit make it a very desirable 

 small tree. It grows to the height of about thirty feet. 



Prunus mume, the famous flowering Plum of Japan, with 

 its showers of bright pink blossoms makes a handsome feature in 

 the landscape. Groups of this beautiful, hardy, free-flowering 

 tree are most effective when grown with a background of dark- 

 foliaged fir, spruce or yew, or flanked with a belt of Japanese 

 Retinospora retusa. 



There are many other species which are very desirable for 

 decorating the shrubbery, such as the double-flowering Prunus 

 sinensis flora pleno, with pink or white flowers, and Prunus tri- 

 loba, also a double-flowering species of shrubby habit. 



Propagate by cuttings inserted in the open ground in No- 

 vember, or by seeds planted about one inch deep and three inches 

 apart, in Spring. 



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