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38760— Continued. 



leafy twigs ; flower stalks very woolly. Fruits in large clusters, each fruit about 

 the size of a pea, rich, bright red. 



*' Native of the Himalayas ; introduced in 1824, and perhaps the most strik- 

 ing of all the cotoneasters. The splendid clusters of ' berries ' wreathing the 

 branches make some of the most brilliant pictures of autumn and early winter. 

 Near London, owing to the attacks of birds, they disappear usually before 

 Christmas, but in country places are occasionally seen hanging until February. 

 The species is the most robust in the genus, making, if left to itself, a huge 

 bush 20 feet high and as much through, consisting of numerous branching 

 stems ; but if kept to one stem when young, and the lower branches removed, it 

 will make a pretty round-headed tree with a well-shaped trunk. There Is a 

 fine specimen of this kind in the Victoria Park at Bath whose trunk is 6 

 feet or so high and 1 foot or more thick. No hardy shrub more beautiful 

 than this thrives in town gardens." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in 

 the British Isles, vol. 1, p. Ji09-410.) 



The wood of this small tree is attracting considerable attention in England 

 as a source of wood for the manufacture of heads for golf sticks. 



38761. Prunus serrulata sachalinensis (Schmidt) Makino. 

 {Prunus sargentii Rehder.) Amygdalacese. Sargent^s cherry. 



From Jamaica Plain, Mass. Presented by Dr. C. S. Sargent, Arnold 

 Ai'boretum. Received July 6, 1914. 

 " This species is considered by Wilson valuable as a stock for the Japanese 

 cherries." (Sarge7it.) 



Distribution. — A large tree, often 75 feet high and 3 feet in diameter, fouud 

 in Chosen (Korea) and the islands of Hokkaido, Hakodate, and Hondo, in 

 Japan. 



"A deciduous tree, 40 to 80 feet high, with a trunk sometimes 3 feet in 

 diameter ; young shoots smooth. Leaves obovate to oval, drawn out at the 

 apex into a long, slender point, rounded, sometimes slightly heart-shaped at 

 the base, sharply toothed, 2 to 4 inches long, about half as wide, quite smooth 

 on both surfaces, often reddish when young; stalk smooth, one-half to 1 inch 

 long, with a pair of glands near the blade. Bracts red, oblong, one-half inch 

 long, edged with small glandular teeth. Flowers li to 1^ inches across, of a 

 lovely deep blush color, produced two to six together in short-stalked umbels, 

 each flower with a stalk 1 to li inches long; petals obovate, notched at the 

 broad^ apex ; calyx tubular, with five ovate, pointed lobes one-fourth inch long, 

 smooth and entire; stamens deep rose. Fruit a small black cherry, one-third 

 inch wide. 



" Native of Japan, introduced by Sargent to Kew in 1893. This splendid 

 cherry, probably the finest of the true cherries as a timber tree, is also one of 

 the most beautiful in its blossom. It flowers in April. The seeds germinate 

 freely after lying dormant a year." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in 

 the British Isles, vol. 2, 250-251, under P. sargentii.) 



38762. Annona muricata L. Annonacese. Guanabana. 

 From Guayaquil, Ecuador. Presented by Mr. Frederic W. Goding, Ameri- 

 can consul. Received July 10, 1914. 



" Guandbana, a fruit growing wild throughout the coastal region of Ecuador, 

 on a very large tree. Evidently it is closely related to the cherimoya." 

 ( Ooding, ) 



