No. 16!?7. 



PRUNUS SIBXRICA, 



CIrtfis, Order. 



ICOSAXDRIA MONOG YMA . 



We raised this from seeds a few years 

 since : it is a native, according to Pallas, of 

 Transalpine Dauria. He has given an ex- 

 cellent figure of it, both in flower and 

 fruit, in the Flora Rossica^ and informs us 

 that in the month of May the south sides 

 of the mountains are covered with the 

 flowers of this plant, while their northern 

 sides are equally adorned with the Rhodo- 

 dendron Dauricum. The fruit is austerely 

 acid : it has not been yet produced with us. 

 It forms a small tree, quite hardy, and we 

 have increased it by budding on common 

 plum stocks : it will grow in any garden 

 soil. 



