330 PLANT CULTURE 



Winters in Washington without the least injury, and flower quite 

 profusely during the Summer. They are all the more welcome, as 

 their unique, bright scarlet flowers are produced when shrubs in 

 bloom are scarce. In favorable seasons they ripen fruit, but we do 

 not depend upon these for propagation. The dwarf form makes a 

 very ornamental shrub and should be tried wherever it is likely to 

 thrive. Native of Cabul and Persia. 



Propagation. Cuttings are taken from one- and two-year-old 

 wood, stored and put in a cool house propagating bed about the 

 middle of February; they root very evenly. They should be re- 

 moved to a frame as soon as they wiU bear it. 



PYRIIS (Crab Apple). Highly ornamental, low growing trees 

 usually covered with flowers early in Spring. Some of them have 

 very highly colored fruits in Autumn. The flowers of P. coronaria 

 are large, single, pinkish white, very sweetly-scented. It bears 

 fruit freely, but the seedlings are slow in making flowering plants. 

 P.floribunda and the variety called atrosanguinea are most beautiful 

 when the flowers are half expanded; they are then of a bright, rosy 

 red color, getting lighter when fully open. The flowers of P. Park- 

 manni are double, of a beautiful deep rose; valuable for cutting. 

 It is a very free flowering variety and should be largely grown. 

 P. carnea and P. lutea produce large numbers of flowers on small 

 grafted plants. The double white and double coral colored forms of 

 P. spectabilis are very desirable; they are very regular bloomers, sel- 

 dom missing a season. P.floribunda and P-f. atrosanguinea bloom 

 freely in a small state, and should be grown more for forcing pur- 

 poses. 



Propagation. They are increased by budding and grafting 

 on seedling stocks. 



RAPHIOLEPIS. The common species, R. umhellata, is a 

 charming little evergreen shrub, which is hardy in Washington in 

 sheltered situations. The flowers resemble those of a Crataegus 

 they are pure white, sweet scented, about three-quarters of an inch 

 across and arranged in terminal panicles. The leaves are leathery 

 in texture and oval. It ought to prove a good shrub for the Southern 

 States. 



Propagation. It is easily propagated by cuttings in the Fall, 

 rooted indoors. 



RHODODENDRON. In some parts these do grandh-. In 

 this locality, when given sheltered and partly shaded positions, the>- 



