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NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



6. Cerasus japonica, with double white flowers. 



Received from Mr. Fortune, from the North of China, in 

 1846. 



This differs in no respect from the well-known double dwarf 

 Chinese Cherry (or Plum), except in having perfectly white and 

 very double flowers. 



Like that plant it is a hardy shrub, growing freely in any 

 good sandy loam, and increased by budding on a plum stock. 

 It is a very nice plant. 



March 12, 1847. 



7. PlXUS WlNCESTERIANA.* 



Seeds of this very distinct Pine was first received by the So- 

 ciety from the Marquis of Winchester, along with a part 

 of one of its long cones in June, 1846; more recently 

 complete specimens, with perfect cones, were obtained 

 from Mr. Hartweg, who found it growing on the most 

 elevated parts of the Cerro de San Juan, or Saddle 

 Mountain, near Tepic, in Mexico, attaining a height 

 of from 60 to 80 feet. 



Leaves in fives, from 12 to 14 inches in length (on the wild 

 specimens), rather stout, triquetrous, thickly set on the branches ; 

 glaucus green, and much resembling those of Pinus filifolia, but 

 broader and shorter than in that species ; sheaths persistent, 

 about 1 inch in length, smooth and entire, or nearly so ; seed- 

 leaves on the young plants mostly eight in number, and rather 

 short ; branches few, spreading irregular, and rather stout ; 

 buds imbricated, non-resinous, and large ; cones pendulous ; 

 sessile on very short footstalks, two or three together, but some- 

 times single, always much incurved, and tapering pretty regu- 

 larly from the base to the point, from 8 to 10 inches in length, 

 and 3 J broad at the base, with from 26 to 30 rows of scales ; 

 scales five-eighths of an inch broad, much elevated, particularly 

 those upon the middle of the cone on the upper side, where they 

 become conical, and from three-eighths to a quarter of an inch 

 high, while those on the under side and towards the extremities 

 are much smaller, less elevated, and nearly all of a size ; from 

 amongst these exude large quantities of clear resin, particularly 

 on the upper side near the base ; seeds rather small, a quarter of 



* P. Wincesteriana ; folis quinis longissimis filiformi-triquetris serrulatis, 

 vagina tereti glabra, strobilis subsessilibus pendulis (2-3) arcuatis elongatis 

 versus apicem squamosum attenuatis, squamis transversis pyramidatis costa- 

 tis, ala oblonga dimidiata semine multo longiore. — G. Gordon. 



