deserving of general Cultivation. 



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fig'^.'t are charming small trees, which, fortunately, 

 may now be had in most nurseries. 



Cotoneaster Arh. Brit., p. 869. There are four 

 trees belonging to this genus, at once of surpassing 

 beauty, and as hardy as if they were natives of 

 Sweden. These are C. frigida, C. aff inis, C. acu- 

 minata, and C. nummularia. Figures of the entire 

 trees, and of the botanical specimens, are given in 

 our Arboretum Britannicum ; and there are plants 

 to be had in several nurseries. The rapidity of 

 growth of C. frtgida and C. affinis is quite astonishing 

 are covered, in June, with a sheet of white blossom, and 

 September, with a cloak of scarlet berries. 



Cratae^gus Arb. Brit., p. 813. We do not know that we can 

 add any thing to what we have already said in recommendation 

 of this genus ; though it is one we so greatly admire, that we 

 could fill a magazine with its praises. We have, in the Arbo- 

 return, described above eighty sorts, and given engravings of 

 about sixty sorts. Nevertheless, one variety escaped us ; viz. 

 Cratae'gus punctata vai'. brevispina {^g. iO.), introduced by Dou- 

 glas, and forming a handsome fastigiate 

 tree, with large very dark purplish red 

 fruit. There are two sorts of Cratae^gus 

 that we are particularly desirous should 

 be introduced into every garden, and, 

 if it were possible, into every hedge : 

 the first, C.orientalis var.sanguinea Arb. 

 Brit., p. 863. fig. 596., which has port- 

 wine-coloured fruit, about the size, form, 

 and colour of the red walnut goose- 

 berry; and the other, C tanacetifolia 

 var. "Leedna Arb. Brit., p. 864. fig. 599., and our^-. 11. This 

 variety, which was raised from seed in the Hammersmith Nursery, 

 has large yellow fruit ; but it is chiefly remarkable for the size and 

 marked character of its leaves, and for the timber-like habit of 

 growth of the tree. The fine specimen of it from which our 

 portrait, given in the Arboretmn Britannicum for November, was 

 taken stands in the Layton Nursery, where there are many 

 curious articles utterly neglected. The only young plants of it 

 that we know of are in that nursery, and in the Hammersmith 

 Nursery ; where, however, not one will be found next spring, if 

 our hint is taken as we mean it to be. Plants of C. orientaHs 

 var. sanguinea are in the Fulham Nursery, under the name of 

 C. orientalis. The only place that we know of where there are 

 large fruit-bearing trees of this kind is in the grounds of the 

 Bishop of London at Fulham Palace. There is, also, a very 

 handsome tree in the London Horticultural Society's Garden ; 



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