COTONEASTER ROTUNDIFO'LIA. 
ROUND-LEAVED COTONEASTER. 
Glass. Order. 
ICOSANDRIA. DI-PENTAGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
POMACEA. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
Nepal. 
3 feet. 
May, June. 
Shrub. 
in 1820. 
No. 1219. 
The derivation of the word Cotoneaster has been 
stated under No. 1206. 
This is a really useful, close-growing, neat shrub, 
for ornament in a garden. It may be planted on 
artificial rockwork, against a wall or trellis; or, with 
a little attention to its support, and judicious train- 
ing, may be grown as an independent bush. Its 
abundant produce of flowers, and equally abundant 
scarlet berries, which continue the year round, make 
it still the more desirable. 
Some authors have believed that this and the 
plant published at No. 830 of this work, are identical ; 
there is no reasonable doubt, however, of their dis- 
tinctness of character. Dr. Lindley says that ‘ ‘ native 
specimens have convinced me that this is a dis- 
tinct species from Cotoneaster microphylla, it being 
a plant of more vigorous growth, having somewhat 
longer and flatter leaves, and bearing flowers more 
frequently in twos and threes than single.” 
Either rotundifolia or microphylla may be grafted 
on standards of the common hawthorn, and they 
will make exceedingly ornamental trees, with ever- 
green drooping branches. 
