1 4 New or rare Hardy or Half-hardy Trees and Shrubs 



^mygda'linje. — Vricnus Mume Sieb. ? Japan ? I do not 

 know any particulars of this species; the plants here are yet too 

 small for me to be able to say any thing about it. It appears to 

 me to belong to Cerasus, section Padi. 



Cerasus Laurocerasus Lois. var. colchica and Emerelli(?). 

 These are varieties of the common laurel, received from Belgium 

 in 1841. 



Spir^a^cejE. — Spirciafissa'LmdX. (Gard.Mag., 1840, p. 593.) 

 and ReevesW Hort, are both good shrubs, especially the first. 



.Rosacea. — Rubus lasiocdrpus Royle Ulust. p. 203. A 

 free-growing hardy species from the Himalayas, which bears a 

 grateful fruit. 



Crataegus Pyracdntha. A variety with white fruit, in every 

 other respect like the species. 



Crataegus sp. A species from the Himalayas, belonging to 

 the Pyracantha section, evergreen, and no doubt hardy. The 

 late frosts do not appear to have in the least degree affected it. 



Poma v ceje. — Cotoneaster denticulata ? Kunth. H. et B. 

 N. Gen. Am., 6. t. 566. ; Arb. Brit., abridged edit., fig. 741. A 

 very pretty species with roundish obcordate leavesj pubescent 

 underneath, and glabrous above. A very distinct species, allied 

 to C. nummularia Lindl., and quite hardy. 



Gross ULA^CEiE. — Ribes Menzies\\. ? Nearly allied to R. 

 speciosum by its leaves and spines. I have not seen the flowers 

 (See Arb. Brit., abridged ed., p. 475. fig. 855.) 



ARALiA v CEiE. — Aralia japonica. A fine plant. See Arb. 

 Brit. abr. ed. p. 1108. fig. 2093. 



(SAMBU^cEiE. — Viburnum Awafuki Sieb. ? ( V. japonicum Hort.) 

 As this plant agrees in many respects with the Coffea mono- 

 sperma of Hook, et Arn., I am not certain whether it may not 

 be the same, as I have never seen the flowers or the seeds. 

 Leaves opposite, shining, ovate, somewhat waved on the mar- 

 gin. A beautiful evergreen, which, I have no doubt, will prove 

 quite hardy. There is a plant here out of doors, from which I 

 took the specimen sent. There is no doubt this will find its 

 way into every collection very soon. Easily propagated by cut- 

 tings at any season. 



V. sinense Zeyh. Whether this may not be the Coffea mono- 

 sperma, I am unable to determine, but it answers the description 

 better, and I incline to think it is. Leaves ovate, acumi- 

 nate, subdentate, opposite ; margins subreflexed. Although this 

 is not such a fine shrub as the last, yet it deserves a prominent 

 place in every collection. A hardy evergreen, easily propagated 

 by cuttings at any season. 



V. Mullaha Ham. Royle Illust., p. 236. (Synon. V. stellula- 

 tum Wall.) Leaves rotund, subrugose, bluntly dentate, woolly 

 beneath. A shrub fx*om elevated situations in the Himalayas, 



