CHERRIES AND CRAB APPLES 201 



on which all of that class should be grafted or budded 

 in order to make them long-lived trees in this climate. 



One of the loveliest of these rose-colored Cherries 

 with double flowers is known in western nurseries 

 as "James H. Veitch." The Japanese name for it 

 is Fugenzo and there is also a white counterpart 

 (albo-rosea) which is styled Shirofugen. These two 

 are distinguished from all others of this class in hav- 

 ing two tiny green and folded leaves in the centre of 

 the majority of their flowers as is the case in the 

 double-flowered form of the European P. Cerasus. 



Two other Japanese Cherries are P. Sieboldii and 

 P. Lannesiana. The first named has rose-pink, 

 double or semi-double flowers and its leaves are 

 clothed with soft hairs. In nurseries it is sold as 

 "Watereri" and as "Naden." The other species has 

 many aliases and in its different forms is sold as 

 P. pseudo-cerasus and as P. serrulata, names, however, 

 to which it has no proper right, and which have proved 

 a great bugbear and hindrance to our proper appre- 

 ciation of the garden varieties of Japanese Cherries 

 generally. In typical P. Lannesiana the flowers are 

 pinkish but its wild form has pure white blossoms. 

 All the numerous forms of this Cherry have fragrant 

 flowers and they are mostly white or pale pink. One 

 sort (Grandiflora or Ukon) has clear yellow flowers 



