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produced trained as standards. All this might be done by any gentleman living in the country 

 (whatever may be the soil or climate of his estate), who keeps a head gardener, without incurring 

 SWfe o( extra expense ; and it would not be easy to point out any other mode, at once so simple and 

 so effectual, for creating a botanical and floral interest in verdant scenery. Those who have not 

 p.mi much attention to this family of low trees, we would recommend to visit the Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Garden in the months of May and September ; and to observe, more particularly in May, 

 the different varieties of ('. Oxyacantha, (". heterophylla, C. coccinea, C. Crus-galli, C. punctata, and 

 C. maeracahtha ; and, in September, C. Arbnia, C. orientalis, C. tanaceti folia, C. maroccana, C. hete- 

 rophj lla, and C. cordata : but, indeed, if we were to mention all the species and varieties which we 

 think eminently beautiful, we should be compelled to repeat Mr. Gordon's enumeration. 



A}i p. ii. Additional Species of Crataegus. 



Notwithstanding the number of sorts of Crataegus already in the country, there appear to be 

 several yet to introduce ; and it is highly probable that there are some European and Asiatic sorts, 

 wad man> American kinds, as yet undiscovered by botanists. We are informed by a botanist who 

 has latch travelled through a considerable part of the United States and of Canada, that numbers of 

 sorts of Crataegus accompanied him almost everywhere ; and that, from the different appearances they 

 presented in different soils and situations, he was quite puzzled to know what to make of them'. 

 1 re made the same remark with resuect to the genus Quercus. Mr. M'Nab, jun., of the Edinburgh 

 Botanic Garden, has, we understand, brought from America a great number of seeds of the genus 

 Crataegus, from which some new sorts may confidently be anticipated. The following names occur 

 in De Candolle's Prodromus, and in Don's Miller; some of which, in all probability, are mere 

 synonymes of kinds already in the country ; but others may belong to kinds not yet introduced. 



$ i. Leaves toothed, or nearly entire, never angularly lobed. 



C. subsphidsa Dec. Prod., 2. p. 626., 2V/£spilus subspinbsa Vent., is a native of Chili, with fruit only 

 half the size of a pea, and nearly dry. 



C. prunelhp/0//rt Bosc in Dec. Prod., ii. p. 627., the Prunella-leaved Thorn, is said to resemble in 

 habit 7'rinnis spinosa ; but its native country and flowers are unknown. {Don's Mill., 2. p. 598.) 



C. latifdlia Pers. {Don's Mill., ii. p. 598.) is a native of North America, with oval red fruit ; said 

 to have been introduced in lh20; but where it is to be found, or of what sort it is a synonyme, we 

 have been unable to ascertain. 



C.flexubsa Poir. (Don's Mill., ii. p. 598.) .is a native of Carolina, with entire obovate pubescent 

 leaves ; spines verv long, and blackish ; and fruit of a reddish yellow. 



C. nlp'nm Mill. Diet, No. 3., (Don's Mill., ii. p. 599.) is said to be a native of Mount Baldo, and 

 other Italian mountains ; and, of course, was in cultivation in Miller's time : but of what sort it is 

 a svnonyme, or whether it is now in the country, is uncertain. 



('. lutca Poir. (Don's Mill., ii. p. 599.) has ovate pubescent leaves, long and strong spines ; and its 

 native country is unknown. From the description, it appears to be different from either the C. Oxya- 

 cantha aurea or the C. flava of British gardens. 



C. pavcijiora Pers., Mespilus paucifibra Poir., is a native of Switzerland, about Lausanne, with 

 solitarv flowers ; probably a variety of Mespilus grandiflora. 



C. unilateralis Pers. (Don's Mill., ii. p. 599.) is a native of Carolina, with the corymbs of flowers 

 unilateral. Dried specimens are in the herbarium of A. B. Lambert, Esq. 



C. lucida Mill. Diet., No. 6., (Don's Mill., ii. p. 599.) has lanceolate serrated leaves, very long 

 spines, and pale red flowers. We do not know of any plant now in the country answering to this 

 description. 



§ ii. Leaves variously lobed, or cut, 



C. turbinata Pursh (Don's Mill., ii. p. 599.) is a native of Carolina and Virginia; and, according 

 to Pursh, allied to C. spathulata. 



C.pentdgyna Waldst. et Kit. (Don's Mill., ii p. 599.) is a native of Hungary; and, obviously, 

 only a varietv of C. Oxyacantha. 



C. kyrtosh'/la Fing. (Don's Mill., ii. p. 600.) is monogynous, with a curved style, as the name 

 implies ; and seems only a variety of the common hawthorn. 



('. lacinihta Dec. Prod., ii. p. 629., is a native of Sicily, with pinnatifid leaves, and white flowers ; 

 said to have been introduced in 1816, and to be allied to C. Azarblus ; but we know nothing of the 



C. Uevigdta Dec. Prod., 2. p. 630., M^spilus laevigata Poir., is a native of the Vosges. 



C. Pw'rr/tiana Dec. Prod., 2. p. 630., A/cspilus linearis Poir., has obovate leaves, somewhat lobed : 

 its native country is unknown ; but, though it is said to have been introduced in 1810, we have not 

 seen the plant. From the leaves being lobed, it is evidently different from the A/espilus linearis of 

 the Jardin des Plantes, which is a synonyme of C. Crus-galli .salicifblia. 



fin In Bosc (Dec. Prod., ii. p 630.) is a native of Persia; said to be allied to C. tanaceti- 

 fbli'i ; and, if so, it cannot be the same as C. Oxyacantha pectinata of Booth. 



C. trifoliatrt Bosc, ('. quinquelobhta Bosc, C. odorhta Bosc, C. obovata Bosc, C.flavescens Bosc, 

 C.fiabellata Bosc, C. liicida latifbtia Boll. Cat., and C. lucida midia Boll. Cat, are names to which 

 no descriptions have been attached. 



App. i»i- Alphabetical List of Sorts of Crataegus in the Arbo- 

 retum of Messrs. Loddiges, as given in their Catalogue, 1 6th 

 cdil ion, 1836; with some Additions, talc en from the Names 

 placed against Plants in their Nursery, but not in the Cata- 

 logue ; referred to the Species and Varieties of Cratagus as 

 given in this Work. 

 The ii <• of this list is to assist persons who have purchased collections of 



("rata -u from Messrs. Loddiges, according to the names of the 15th and 



