CHAP. XL II. 



ROSA CEiE. C'E RASUS. 



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don Horticultural Society's Garden, in Loddiges's arboretum, and at Syon, 

 we think it will be difficult to discover anything like a specific distinction, or 

 even sufficient to constitute a race. 



Statistics. Under the name of C. serotina, we have received the dimensions of several trees, which 

 we consider as those of C. virginiana; but we have placed them under this head, in conformity with 

 the name sent us. In Surrey, at Bagshot Park, 40 years planted, and 35 ft. high. In Buckinghamshire, 

 at Temple House, 40 years planted, and 30 ft. high. In Hertfordshire, at Cheshunt, 6 years planted, 

 and 10 ft. high. In Yorkshire, at Grimstone, 13 years planted, and 20 ft. high. In Scotland, in 

 Stirlingshire, at Callander Park, 16 years planted, and 20 ft. high. In France, at Barres, 13 years planted, 

 and 18 ft. high. In Switzerland, in the Botanic Garden at Geneva, 35 ft. high, with a trunk 9£ in. 

 in diameter. Price as in C. virginiana. 



* 25. C. (v.) Capo'llin Dec. The Capollin Bird Cherry Tree. 



Identification. Dec. Prod., 2. p. 539. , Don's Mill., 2. p. 515. 



Synonymes. Prunus virginiana Flora Mexic. ic. and MSS. ; P. canadensis Moc. et Sesse, Pi. Mex. 



Ic. ined., Hem. Mex., 95. 

 Engravings. Fl. Mex. icon. ined. ; PI. Mex. icon. ined. ; Hem. Mex. Icon., 95. ; and our fig. 420. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves lanceolate, 420 



serrated, and glabrous, resembling 

 in form, and nearly in size, those of 

 Salix fragilis. Racemes lateral and 

 terminal. Fruit globose, resembling, 

 in form and colour, that of C. syl- 

 vestns. A native of Mexico, in tem- 

 perate and cold places. {Dec. Prod., 

 ii. p. 539.) Seringe doubts whether 

 the racemes are not slightly com- 

 pound. Those produced on a plant 

 bearing the name of this species, in 

 the London Horticultural Society's 

 Garden, are not. Its leaves, also, 

 are much too broad and elliptical 

 to resemble those of S. fragilis ; but 

 the leaves, the flowers, and the 

 whole tree, bear so much resem- 

 blance to C. virginiana, that we have 

 no doubt of its being only a variety 

 of that species, but of larger and 

 more luxuriant growth. There are plants in the London Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, in Loddiges's arboretum, and in the Hammersmith Nur- 

 sery, which come into leaf, flower, and drop their leaves, at the same time 

 as C. virginiana ; but a vigorous tree, against a wall in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, which flowers and fruits freely, retains its leaves nearly all 

 the winter, in consequence of the protection it receives from the wall. This 

 variety appears to have been introduced in 1820, by the London Horti- 

 cultural Society; and it certainly deserves culture with C. virginiana, in 

 preference to C. serotina, on account of its greater distinctness. The bark 

 is said to be employed, in Mexico, as a febrifuge. 



S 26. C. (v.) canadensis Lois. The Canadian Bird Cherry Tree. 



Identification. Lois, in N. Du Ham., 5. p. 3. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 539. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 515. 



Synonymes. Prunus canadensis Willd. Sp., 2. p. 986., Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 330. 



Engraving. Pluk. Aim., t. 158. f. 4. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves glandless ; the disk broadly lanceolate, tapered into the petiole, wrinkled, 

 downy, and green upon both surfaces. A native of North America. (Dec. Prod.,u. p. 539.) Pursh 

 says, " I strongly suspect this to be nothing more than P. hyemalis." In the Nouveau Du Hamel, 

 and in Don's Miller, it is characterised as a bird cherry tree; and in the latter as growing to the 

 height of 20 ft. or 30 ft.; and as having been introduced in 1820, and producing its white flowers 

 in May and June. We have never seen the plant. 



sfc 27. C. nepale'nsis Ser. The Nepal Bird Cherry Tree. 



Identification. Seringe in Dec. Prod., 2. p. 540. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 515. 



Spec. Char., 8fc. Leaves resembling in form those of Salix fragilis ; long, lanceolate, acuminate, ser- 

 rate, with blunt teeth, glabrous, whitish beneath ; the veins much reticulated; and the axils of the 

 larger of them hairy. Peduncle short, and, as well as the rachis, slightly villose. Calyx glabrous. 

 A native of Nepal. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 540.) In Don's Miller, this species of bird cherry is said to 

 have been introduced in 1820 ; but we have never seen a plant of it. 



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