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ground in March and April, on the Quince 

 stock. See article on G-rafting, p. 52. 



P. arbutifolia (Cratcsgus arbutifoUa). 

 Californian Mm/bush. — ACalifornian tree 

 10-20 ft. high, with young branches and 

 leaf stalks bright red. Leaves oblong 

 lance-shaped acute, serrated. Flowers in 

 summer, white, in long panicles. 



Culture (Be. as above. 



P. elliptica. — A native of Nepaul, 30 

 ft. high. Leaves elliptic, toothed, downy 

 beneath. Flowers white, in clusters 

 covered with a rusty down. Fruit yellow, 

 downy! 



Culture dc. as above. 



P. japonica {Eriohotrya japonica). — 

 Japan Medlar or Quince ; Loquat. — A 

 handsome Japanese tree 10-20 ft. high. 

 Leaves large, oblong, wrinkled, downy 

 beneath. Flowers late in autumn, white, 

 in drooping racemes. Fruit about the 

 size of a Pippin Apple, pale orange -red, 

 downy, in large clusters ; scarcely ever 

 produced out of doors in the British 

 Islands. 



Culture dc. as above. 



P. serrulata (Cratcegus glabra). — 

 Chinese Hawthorn. — A handsome Chinese 

 and Japanese tree 10-20 ft. high. Leaves 

 Laurel-like, leathery, oblong acute, serru- 

 late. Flowers from April to July, white, 

 small, in fiat corymbs. 



Culture dc. as above. 



POURTHIiEA.— A genus of ever- 

 green or deciduous shrubs closely re- 

 sembling the Photinias and almost 

 identical with them in structure. The 

 leaves are usually more or less lance- 

 shaped and serrate with bristly stipules, 

 and the flowers are borne in cymes or 

 corymbs. Calyx sharply 5-toothed. 

 Petals 5, twisted in bud, with an 

 emarginate or lacerated apex. Stamens 

 20. Fruits about the size of a Pea, 

 fleshy. 



P. arguta [Photinia arguta). — A 

 handsome shrub native of the Khasia Hills, 

 with downy young shoots, and lance- 

 shaped or elliptic oblong sharply serrate 

 leaves 3-6 in. long. Flowers in summer, 

 white. 



Culture and Propagation. — This 

 seems to be the only species at present 

 cultivated, and even it is not well-known. 

 There are about a dozen species alto- 

 gether known, and they resemble each 



other a good deal in appearance. The 

 leaves, however, are much narrower and 

 shorter in some than in others. The 

 plants flourish in light sandy loam, and 

 are more valuable for their foliage than 

 anything else. They may be trained 

 against walls like the Photinias, and may 

 also be increased by cuttings of the more 

 or less ripened shoots in summer and 

 autumn inserted under handlights. 



RHAPHIOLEPIS (Japanese Haw- 

 thorn). — A genus with a few species of 

 rather smooth evergreen trees and shrubs, 

 with alternate simple leathery leaves, 

 entire or serrulate. Flowers in panicles 

 or corymbs. Calyx lobes 5, deciduous. 

 Petals 5, clawed, oblong, acute. Stamens 

 many, deciduous. Berry pulpy. 



Culture and Propagation. — These like 

 a rich loam, peat, and sandy soil in warm 

 situations, protected from the north and 

 east. Cuttings of the half-ripened shoots 

 will root in sandy soil under a glass during 

 the siunmer months. 



R. ovata (iJ. japonica integerrima). 

 A beautiful Japanese shrub 2-4 ft. high. 

 Leaves 2-3 in. long, broadly obovate, dark 

 green and shining above. Flowers in 

 June, less than 1 in. across, snowy white, 

 fragrant. 



R. indica, the East Indian Hawthorn, 

 and its variety salicifoUa, are also beauti- 

 ful plants, but not quite hardy enough for 

 ova climate, except perhaps on sunny 

 walls in mild places in the south and 

 west. 



Culture dc. as above. 



STRANV.(ESIA. — A genus with 

 only one species, here described with the 

 generic characters : — 



S. glaucescens. — An ornamental ever- 

 green tree, about 20 ft. high when fully 

 grown, native of the Khasia Hills and 

 other parts of the temperate Himalayas. 

 It has alternate stalked, simple leathery 

 leaves, ovate lance-shaped in outline with 

 serrulate edges, and bristly stipules at the 

 base. The white flowers appear in June 

 in axillary and terminal clusters, and ill a 

 wild state are succeeded by small orange- 

 coloured fruits. The bell-shaped calyx 

 has 5 short erect blunt lobes. Petals 5, 

 spreading, hairy at the base. Stamens 

 about 20. Ovary hairy, half- superior, 5- 

 oelled. Styles 5, united at the base. 



Culture cmd Propagation. — This tree 

 is scarcely hardy enough for growing in 



