COTON EASTER M I C RO P H V L' LA . 
SMALL-LEAVED COTONEASTER. 
Class. 
1C0SANDRIA. 
Order 
Dl-PBNTAG Y Ni A . 
Natural Order. 
ROSACE*. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit, 
Introduced 
Nepal. 
4 feet. 
May. 
Shrub. 
in 1825. 
No. 830. 
The generic name, Cotoneaster, is, says Dr. 
Lindley,a sort of barbarous word, signifying quince- 
like. The quince was called Contonea by Pliny, 
and aster, a corruption of ad instar, is used occasion- 
ally to express simile. Some of the Cotoneasters 
are not unlike the quince. 
The beautiful evergreen shrub now figured, has 
slender branches, densely set with laterals and 
foliage, and best suited for training against a wall 
or trelis ; or, being exceedingly hardy, it forms a 
delightful trailing shrub to spread amongst rock- 
work, where its white flowers in spring, and its 
bright cornelian-like berries in winter, reposing on 
a dense bed of shining deep-green foliage, produce 
an effect surpassed in interest by no plant that can 
be adopted for such use. 
It will flourish in almost any soil, or in [any 
situation, and is readily increased by layers, or by 
grafting it upon any of our free-growing species, 
or on the common hawthorn. Grafted on standards, 
either high or low, according to the situation they 
are intended to occupy, beautiful objects may be 
formed for planting singly. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. 2, 604. 
