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TREES AND SHRUBS 



Name. 



Country or 



Origin and 



Natural Order, 



Colour 



AND 



Season. 



General Remarks. 



Prunus Laurocera- 

 sus (Cherry Laurel) 



*P. lusitanica (Portu- 

 gal Laurel) 



East Europe 



Spain and Portugal 



White 



White 



Pyrus 



Rosacess 





casica, rotundifolia, and 

 schipksensis ; the last men- 

 tioned is about the hardiest. 



A popular evergreen. There 

 are four varieties — azorica, 

 which is very tender; cori- 

 acea ; myrtifolia, small nar- 

 row leaves, and bears clipping 

 well. P. ilicifolia is the only 

 plant that need be raised 

 from seed. The Cherry and 

 Portugal Laurels, with their 

 varieties, are usually propa- 

 gated by cuttings, ripened 

 wood of almost any size being 

 cut into pieces 8 inches or so 

 in length, and inserted nearly 

 their full length in the ground. 

 This can be done from the 

 time the wood is ripe enough 

 until the end of the year. 

 Practically every cutting will 

 root and make sturdy plants 

 in a twelvemonth. The 

 Portugal Laurel is also largely 

 raised from seeds, which are 

 gathered when ripe and sown 

 immediately without any pre- 

 hminary cleaning. If kept 

 in sand until the following 

 spring, they begin to grow 

 before the season is sufHci- 

 ently advanced to sow them, 

 and if dried, nearly a year is 

 lost before they germinate. 



An important and beautiful 

 genus, asit includes the Pears, 

 Apples, and Quinces of the 

 hardy fruit garden, and such 

 trees as the Flowering Crabs, 

 the White Beam tree. Moun- 

 tain Ash, and Pyrus japon- 

 ica. It is divided into seven 

 sections, viz. , Pyrophorum, 

 which includes the true pears; 

 Mains, the Wild Crab apples, 

 parents of many garden 

 forms ; Aria, of which the 

 White Beam tree is a good 

 type; Sorbus, in which is 

 found the Mountain Ash ; 

 Adenorachis, which only con- 

 tains the North American 

 species, Cydonia, the Quin- 

 ces, and Mespilus, with which 

 is placed the Medlar. These 

 are found practically through- 

 out the northern temperate 

 zone, under varying condi- 

 tions, and with one or two 

 unimportant exceptions, are 



