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marvellously beautiful that the smallest garden should 
contain one or more specimens of the more distinct 
forms. In many gardens, even in those with a con- 
siderable area, they are wholly unrepresented, a fact 
difficult to understand except on the assumption that 
planters are not acquainted with them. 
The cherries will thrive in soils of all descriptions 
but they attain their fullest development in a soil con- 
taining a liberal percentage of calcareous matter. A 
little lime rubble or chalk added to the soil when being 
prepared for the reception of the trees or an occasional 
top dressing of slaked lime will give them the necessary 
supply of calcareous matter. The weeping varieties 
should be planted in isolated positions on the lawn 
where there will be no interference with their natural 
growth. The others may be arranged singly or in 
small groups on the lawn and in the shrubbery and 
along the margins of plantations. 
One of the finest of these is C. aviam multiplex, an 
elegant tree reaching a height of thirty feet or more and 
most profuse in blooming ; the flowers are pure white, 
quite double and an inch or more in diameter and they 
are produced in such large numbers that the branches 
are simply wreaths of the snow-white blossoms. C. 
mahaleb pendula is an elegant weeping form bearing 
myriads of small single flowers. C. sinensis pendula rosea 
is another weeping cherry equally as elegant in aspect 
as the last-named but with much larger flowers which 
differ also in being of a pleasing rose shade. C. pseudo- 
cerasus (syn. C. Sieboldi rosea plena) is quite different in 
character to the foregoing and although less graceful is 
very handsome. The trees are relatively dwarf and 
range from ten to fifteen feet, the branches are stout 
and rigid, and the flowers are large, pale rose, and pro- 
duced in short racemes. Waterer’s variety has larger 
and more brightly coloured flowers, and the Japanese 
