AMYG'DALUS PEDUNCULA'TA. 
PEDUNCULATE ALMOND. 
Class. 
ICOSANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ROSACEA. 
Country 
Height 
Flowers in 
Habit 
Introduced 
Unknown. 
5 feet. 
April, May. 
Shrub. 
in 1836. 
No. 908. 
The word Amygdalus, was deduced from the 
Greek amusso, signifying to lacerate. It was 
adopted in allusion to the lacerated or fissured nut 
of the almond. This shrub has sometimes been 
called, after Ledebour, Amygdalus Pallasii, but 
improperly, inasmuch as Pallas himself had pre- 
viously named it pedunculata, and by this name too, 
Ledebour himself sent the seeds to this country. 
With the specimen from which our drawing was 
made, we were favoured by Mr. Cameron, curator 
of the Birmingham Horticultural Society’s Garden; 
who states that he raised it from seeds, received 
from Professor Ledebour. It was also raised in 
the London Horticultural Society’s Garden, from 
seeds obtained from the same source ; and it is 
noticed by Mr. Gordon of that establishment, as a 
very pretty dwarf decumbent bush, and quite 
hardy. It doubtless, is a pretty shrub, but it 
seems questionable whether it should be called 
decumbent. 
This shrub seems likely to grow freely in any 
common soil ; and from its dwarf habit should be 
planted near to the front of the border. 
