4IO 



TREES AND SHRUBS 



Name. 



Country or 



Origin and 



Natural Order, 



Colour 



AND 



Season. 



General Remarks. 



*Pyrus Cydonia (Syn 

 Cycionia vulgaris) 



Unknown 



Flesh 



. japonica 



China and Japan 



Scarlet ; 



April, 

 earlier in 



some 

 gardens 



The Quince is for the garden 

 orchard. "How seldom does 

 one see Quinces planted for 

 ornament, and yet there is 

 hardly any small tree that 

 better deserves such treat- 

 ment. Some Quinces planted 

 about eight years ago are 

 now perfect pictures ; their 

 lissome branches, borne 

 down with the load of great 

 deep-yellow fruit, and their 

 leaves turning to a colour 

 almost as rich and glowing. 

 The old English rather round- 

 fruited kind with the smooth 

 skin is the best both for 

 flavour and beauty — a mature 

 tree without leaves in winter, 

 has a remarkably graceful, 

 arching, almost weeping 

 growth. The other kind is 

 of a rather more rigid form, 

 and though its woolly-coated, 

 pear-shaped fruits are larger 

 and strikingly handsome, the 

 whole tree has a coarse look, 

 and just lacks the attractive 

 grace.of the other. They will 

 do fairly well almost any- 

 where, though they prefer a 

 rich loamy soil, and a cool, 

 damp, or even swampy place." 

 - - Wood and Garden, p. 128. 



A beautiful shrub, one of the 

 most valuable introductions 

 that we have ever had from 

 China and Japan. It is the 

 "japonica" of many a cottage 

 and villa wall, and in sheltered 

 warm gardens begins to bloom 

 before winter has gone, a 

 bright, cheery, and welcome 

 shrub indeed in border or on 

 wall. It is so well known that 

 a description is almost need- 

 less, but there are several va- 

 rieties, with considerable range 

 of colour, from white to scar- 

 let. We give the six from the 

 Kew list : candicans, white ; 

 luteo-viridis, yellow; Moer- 

 loesi, crimson ; nivalis, white ; 

 sulphurea perfecta and ver- 

 sicolor lutescens, both yel- 

 lowish. All the varieties are 

 good, but one in particular 

 we prize highly, that is Knap- 

 Hill scarlet, which isabrilliant 

 scarlet, delightful in a group ; 

 it is a most valuable shrub. 



