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37578 to 37600— Continued. 



later on the clusters change to berries, which become very black and 

 handsome, especially in the late autumn, when the leaves have fallen. 

 The foliage of this bush is of a shining green, changing in autumn to 

 bright yellow, orange, and red." (Florists' Exchange, August 23, 1913.) 



37595. SoRBUS hybrida L. Bastard service tree. 



(Pyrus pinnatifida Ehrh.) 



"A deciduous tree, 20 to 40, occasionally over 50 feet high, with 

 ascending branches; twigs covered with loose grayish floss when young, 

 becoming smooth and of a dark lustrous brown by winter. Leaves 3 

 to 5 inches long, 1 to 2 inches wide ; narrowly oblong ovate in main 

 outline, but usually pinnate or cut nearly to the midrib at the base, 

 the upper portion lobed and toothed, but less deeply so toward the apex, 

 which is merely coarsely toothed ; the lower surface is covered with a 

 dull gray, persistent down; leaf stalk one-half to 1^ inches long, downy. 

 Flowers white, about one-half inch wide, produced in May in corymbs 

 3 to 5 inches across. Fruit bright red, round oval, two-fifths inch long. 



" This tree, especially handsome in foliage and fruit, is found wild 

 in north and central Europe, and is generally believed to be a natural 

 hybrid between Pyrus intermedia and P. aucuparia. The influence of 

 the latter is seen in the larger leaves, especially of the sterile shoots, 

 having usually from 1 to 8 pairs of leaflets at the base. On the flower- 

 ing twigs many of the leaves are simple. It is found wild in the Isle 

 of Arran, rarely in England. It is connected with both intermedia and 

 aucuparia by intermediate forms, but as a rule reproduces itself true 

 from seed. The habit generally is erect, but a form sent out by Messrs. 

 Backhouse of York with more than usually erect branches is called var. 

 fastigiata." (TF. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, 

 vol. 2, p. 289-290.) 



37596 to 37598. Cotoneasteb spp. 



37596. CoTONEASTER DiVARicATA Rchd. and Wilson. 



This species of Cotoneaster, which is valued chiefly for its dark 

 red, often long-persistent fruit, is a native of western China and 

 was mtroduced into this country in 1909 by Mr. E. H. Wilson. It 

 has been grown successfully in the gardens of the Arnold Arboretum, 

 where it has stood the winters without severe injury. It promises 

 to become a valuable garden plant in this country." (Arnold Ar- 

 boretum, Bulletin of Popular Information, No. 19, April 25, 1912.) 



"A deciduous shrub up to 6 feet high, of spreading habit; young 

 shoots clothed with grayish hairs, becoming the second year smooth 

 and reddish brown. Leaves roundish oval, sometimes ovate or obo- 

 vate, tapered abruptly toward both ends, the apex mucronate; one- 

 third to 1 inch long, one-fourth to five-eighths inch wide (smaller 

 on the flowering shoots) ; dark glossy green, and soon smooth above, 

 sparsely hairy beneath ; veins in three or four pairs ; leaf stalk one- 

 twelfth inch or less long. Flowers usually in threes at the end 

 of short twigs, often supplemented by solitary ones in the axils of 

 the terminal leaves, rosy white; calyx lobes triangular, they and the 

 tube loosely woolly. Fruit red, egg shaped, one-third inch long, car- 

 rying two stones. 



