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PYRUS SPECTABILIS ROSEO-PLENA-ROSES AND ROSE-CULTURE. 
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PYRUS SPECTABILIS ROSEO-PLENA. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
AR too little use is made in ornamental planting of the lovely early- 
flowering Chinese and Japanese Pyruses, one of which, P. Malus jloribunda. 
we figured a short time ago. Our present subject is similar in habit, but 
slightly stouter in growth, the vigorous one-year-old shoots producing 
as that does, short leafy spurs, terminating in crowded clusters of from 
four to six large showy flowers, while the older shoots throw out short laterals, 
which are equally clothed with flowers. The leaves are oblong acute, rather 
larger than in Malus Jloribunda. The flowers are of a lovely rose-pink, paler in 
the expanded state, and as the branches are naturally laden with a profusion of 
blossoms, the tree presents a charming play of colour during the flowering period, 
The colour resembles that of the monthly rose, but is brighter, and the half-opened 
flowers have just the appearance of diminutive pink roses. In this state they are 
about an inch across, while when fully expanded they measure as much again, the 
flowers being semi-double, with about three rows of large bluntly-ovate clawed 
petals, and having in the centre a crowded tuft of stamens and abortive pistils. 
The ovary is obconical, pubescent, with short triangular calyx-lobes, and the fruit, 
here and there produced, is roundish, slightly elongated. 
We have here one of the gayest of early-flowering, hardy deciduous trees, one 
of a class of subjects which deserves to be much better known and more frequently 
planted. Later than the almond, but earlier than the hawthorn and laburnum, 
these charming low trees come in with double-blossomed cherries, and lilacs of all 
hues, to light up the prominent parts of the shrubbery or the pleasure-ground with 
their gay and abundant flowers, which, as they hang on the branches, may be 
compared to garlands of tiny pink roses—so closely, indeed, simulating them in 
appearance, that the scent only seems wanted to complete the illusion. 
We are indebted for the specimens here figured to Mr. A. Waterer, of Knap 
Hill, Woking, who obtained his plants from the neighbourhood of Abergavenny. 
Though not new, it is comparatively rare, and appears to be very little known, 
it is, however, one of those trees of which it may emphatically be said, that it 
deserves a place in every garden in which it does not already exist.—T. M. 
ROSES AND ROSE-CULTURE. 
Chapter X.—On Tea-Scented Roses. 
|T is just probable that some of our Amateur Rose-growers who do not visit 
the London shows, or the large nurseries or gardens, may never have seen 
a collection of Tea-scented Roses when in full bloom, under the manage¬ 
ment of an experienced and successful cultivator. I do not speak of the 
wretched starvelings sometimes met with, but of the huge pyramids in pots 
which have been staged at flower show's, and of the bold examples often found 
in the borders of English conservatories, climbing up the pillars and under the 
3rd series.—y. c 
