THE ORNAMENTAL CHERRIES OF JAPAN. 



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get green till the flowers are ready to fall. The early 

 single varieties remain in bloom only a couple of weeks, 

 and begin to decline about the middle of April. Most of 

 the double varieties are in the 

 zenith of their glory during the 

 latter half of April, and some 

 of them persist till well into 

 May. All of them are charm- 

 ing, even in their dissolution 

 when the falling petals turn 

 summersaults through the air 

 in clouds, and literally strew 

 the pathways and the people 

 with flowers. 



Following is a list of choice 

 varieties, which, however, 

 covers only a fraction of what 

 may be found there. Those 

 represented in the engravings 

 have been selected to illus- 

 trate the leading types. 



slender, and on the whole they resemble that species 

 more than they do the flowering cherry proper. 



Kanzan (Fig. 2). — This plain white variety is pe- 

 culiar, in that it is sweet 

 scented to a marked de- 

 gree, which is the case 

 with but very few varie- 

 ties. It is also an abun- 

 dant bloomer, and its 

 flowers are very late and 

 persistent. A good-sized 

 tree of this variety grew 

 in the college grounds, 

 where I had frequent 



Fig. 



Kanzan. 



SINGLE-FLOWERED VARIETIES. 



Higan — Flower small, rose colored. 



Yama-Higan — Flower white, small. 



It should be stated that these two varieties probably 

 belong to Priimis subhirtella, Miq. Both are among the 

 earliest to bloom ; the flowers are small, the growth 



opportunity to see it. It is spreading and bushyain 

 habit, with small leaves and very slender twigs. 



Nioi-sa];i(ra ( Fig. i). —Flowers blush, sweet-scented 

 like the foregoing, and late. 



Jishiu has a tendency to become double. Flowers 

 blush and spread wide open, displaying numerous long, 

 red stamens with yellow anthers ; profuse bloomer ; 

 stems short and slender ; medium early. 



Koma-tome. — Freely translated, the name means ' 'Stop 

 Horse and Look." It is a very large pure white flower, 

 with broad petals and numerous long stamens ; the flower 

 stems are long and panicled or branched : blooms early. 

 Yoshino-sakiira . — Pure white, medium early flower. 

 Beni-ito-sakiira . — Flowers small, bright red, early. 



DOUBLE-FLOWERED VARIETIES. 



Fuzan-Fukun. — (Fig. 3). The flowersof this splendid va- 

 riety are very double reddish-pink in color, almost glob- 

 ular in shape; continues in bloom till late in May. 



