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TREES AND SHRUBS 



Name. 



Country or 



Origin and 



Natural Order, 



Colour 



AND 



Season. 



General Remarks. 



Prunus davidiana 

 (Amygdalus davi- 

 diana) 



P. incana (Amyg- 

 dalus incana) 



*P. nana (Amyg- 

 dalus nana) 



P. orientalis 



China 



Asia Minor 



*P. Persica (the 

 Peach), (Syn Per- 

 sica vulgaris and 

 Amygdalus Per- 

 sica) 



Eastern Europe 

 and the southern 

 parts of Russia 



Western Asia 



China, but former- 

 ly considered a 

 native of Persia 



White or 



pale rose ; 



January 



or early 



February 



Pale red ; 



March and 



April 



Rose; 



March and 



April 



Rose; 

 April 



Pink; 



April or 



May 



the Almond, but the flowers 

 are of about the same size 

 and substance. There are 

 two forms, alba, white, and 

 rubra, rose or red. Beautiful 

 under glass. 

 This species is allied to the 

 pretty P. nana; it is a spread- 

 ing shrub 4 to 6 feet high 

 with linear leaves silvery- 

 white underneath. The 

 flowers are about half the 

 size of those of the Almond 

 and freely produced. 

 This delightful little shrub is 

 rarely more than 3 feet high, 

 the thin twiggy growths being 

 covered every Spring with 

 rose - coloured flowers. It 

 makes a charming bed for 

 the Spring, and is very easily 

 increased by layering. 

 This shrub grows to a height 

 of about 6 feet, but is not 

 very hardy. So many, how- 

 ever, enjoy the beauty of the 

 Almond family that we in- 

 clude it, as in many southern 

 gardens it is happy. The 

 willow-like leaves are silvery 

 white. 

 This beautiful spring-flowering 

 tree needs no description. It 

 is not grown, however, so 

 much as the various double- 

 flowered varieties, such as 

 flore-roseo-pleno and fiore- 

 albo-pleno ; the former has 

 very double bright rose 

 flowers and the latter white. 

 Flore-rubro-pleno is a double 

 red form. The variety foiiis 

 rubris has deep purple- 

 coloured leaves ; the flowers 

 are tinged with the same 

 colour and the fruits are dark 

 and freely produced. Mag- 

 nifica is a double red -flowered 

 variety with larger and finer 

 flowers than the others, and 

 the finest of all. All the 

 Almonds are best propagated 

 by budding or grafting on 

 suitable stocks, which are the 

 common Almond for warm 

 light soils, and the Plum for 

 heavier soils and colder lo- 

 calities. For budding the 

 mussel plum stock is the best 

 to use, and either the same 

 or the Myrobella plum for 



