Bird graceful. It attains a height of thirty feet, and begins to 
Cherries 
and 
flower the end of April, or more usually the beginning of May. 
The weeping variety is the best, and if possible must not be 
Varieties of Omitted from any collection of flowering trees. 
Pyrus | 
Compared to the double varieties, the Bird Cherries, classed 
in a group of their own as Prunus Padus, seem insignificant, 
but if there is space they are pretty too, and may well be 
introduced into any bit of woodland. Padus flore pleno is a 
great improvement on the single form, and has heads of bloom 
more like a Lilac in form than an ordinary Cherry, though 
the individual sprays are much smaller. 
The latest of the Cherries—the Morellas, and the Kentish 
Cherry, with the stone clinging to the stalk—lead on to the time 
of the Pyruses. Both the former make graceful drooping trees 
with slender branches, and should be grown near that most 
munificent of flowering treess—Pyrus Malus floribunda, Theback 
entrance to a neighbouring garden is graced with a line of these 
two trees, making a picture every year when their lovely sprays 
of pink and white droop over the bed of budding Iris, though 
they are so striking that they can afford to stand alone, or 
backed by Holly, as in the sketch. Pyrus Malus atrosanguinea 
is more fully coloured than _/foribunda, but to my mind is not so 
beautiful, and the variety flore pleno is still redder. 
Many of these Crabs should be grown too for their beauty 
in the autumn, when their bunches of fruit are remarkably 
picturesque. The Siberian Crab, P. daccata, is one of the best, 
with first a profusion of bright pink flowers, and later clusters of 
miniature scarlet apples the size of a cherry, but with a delicate 
grey bloom and the dimple of an apple. P. Rigo has large 
yellow fruit, very effective in September. 
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