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I C. O. 15 multiplex Hort., C. O. flore plena Hort., {fig. 609. in p. 866.) 

 has double white flowers, which die off* of a beautiful pink ; and 

 which, being produced in great profusion, and lasting a long time, 

 render this a most desirable variety : accordingly, it is to be found 

 in almost every shrubbery and garden. 

 J C. O. 16 rosea Hort. ; E'pinier Marron, Fr.; (fig. 612. in p. 866.) has 

 the petals pink, with white claws, and is a well-known and very 

 beautiful variety. Kay informs us that this variety was found in 

 an orchard hedge at Gaddington in Northamptonshire, and at Ricot 

 Park and elsewhere in Oxfordshire. (Syn., p. 454.) 

 It C. O. IT punieea Lodd. Cat., C. O. rosea superba Hort., has larger 



petals, which are of a dark red, and without white on the claws. 

 If C. O. 18 punieea fibre pleno Hort. is said to be of as dark and brilliant 

 a red as C. O. punieea, and to have double flowers. We have never 

 seen this kind in blossom ; but there are young plants of it in the 

 Camberwell Nursery ; and there is one specimen in the Horticul- 

 tural Society's Garden. 

 5: C. O. 19 fbliis aureis Lodd. Cat. has leaves variegated with yellow; 

 but they have generally a ragged and diseased appearance, when fully 

 expanded ; though, like those of most other variegated deciduous 

 plants, when first opening in spring, they are strikingly showy and 

 distinct. 

 5: C. O. 20 foliis argenteis Hort. has leaves variegated with white; but, 

 like the preceding variety, it cannot be recommended as handsome 

 at any other period than when the leaves are first expanding. 

 It C. O. 21 stricta Lodd. Cat., C. O. rigida Ronalds, has the shoots 

 upright, and the general habit as fastigiate as that of a Lombardy 

 poplar. It was discovered in a bed of seedlings in Messrs. Ronald's 

 Nursery, about 1825, and forms a very distinct and desirable variety. 

 If C. O. 22 CWsiana Hort. is also somewhat fastigiate in its habit ; but it 

 is a much more slender-growing plant; and we have never seen a 

 specimen in a situation where it could display its natural form and 

 mode of growth. There are several plants of it at Messrs. Lod- 

 diges's ; but they are all crowded together. 

 ¥ C. O. 23 pendula Lodd. Cat. has drooping branches. A very marked 

 variety of this kind, which was picked out of a bed of seedlings by 

 General Monckton, is in the collection of thorns at Somerford 

 Hall. The branches come out of the main stem in whorls, and 

 hang down almost perpendicularly, so as to give the plant some- 

 what the appearance of a distaff. Mr. Anderson, the curator of the 

 Chelsea Botanic Garden, obtained pendulous-branched varieties 

 of the common thorn, by grafting shoots from those bundles or 

 conglomerations of slender shoots, resembling bird's nests, which 

 are sometimes found in old trees ; and he observes that, on what- 

 ever species of ligneous plant these bird's-nest-like conglomerations 

 of shoots are met with, by grafting them on a tree of the same 

 species, they will hang down, and constitute a pendulous variety. 

 (See Gard. Mag., vol. ix. p. 596.) 

 1 C. O. 24 rcgince Hort. Queen Mary's Thorn. — The parent tree is in a 

 garden near Edinburgh, which once belonged to the Regent Murray, 

 and is now, 1836, in the possession of Mr. Cowan, a paper manufac- 

 turer. It is very old, and its branches have somewhat of a drooping 

 character ; but whether sufficiently so to constitute a variety worth 

 propagating as a distinct kind, appears to us very doubtful. It may be 

 interesting, however, to some Scotchmen, to continue by extension 

 the individual tree under which the unfortunate queen is supposed to 

 have spent many hours. The fruit of this variety is rather above 

 the middle size, long, fleshy, of a deep red, and good to eat. A 

 lithographic impression of this tree has been sent us by Dr. Neill, 



