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Oriental Flowering Trees and Shrubs 
Autumnalis {Prunus Subhirtella Autumnalis). This autumn-flowering 
variety is double, pale pink, and exceedingly prolific. The flowers are small, 
similar to Beni Higan. In the spring it blooms with Beni Higan, but it 
differs from all the other varieties inasmuch as in the autumn (October or 
November) it pro¬ 
duces a crop of 
flowers so freely 
that you would be¬ 
lieve no buds could 
possibly be left for 
spring blooming. 
However, when 
March arrives you 
will be surprised to 
see another crop of 
flowers just as abun¬ 
dant as the one you 
observed in the fall 
and winter. 
This variety has 
been exceedingly scarce up to the present time, but we are now able to 
meet any reasonable demand. One of these unusual trees should positively 
be in every garden. 
Beni Higan (Primus subhirtella). Habit of growth showing tree almost 
twice as wide as high. A blaze of light pink 
We have them in two forms: the standard form is grafted to a stem 
four to five feet high, forming a globular top, not stiff and formal, but as a 
small tree with small leaves and 
a profusion of flowers; the other 
form, ^pyramid, is a bush or low 
tree branched from the ground. 
The ultimate height is possibly 
sixteen feet. 
The following is an extract from 
the April issue of the Arnold Ar¬ 
boretum Bulletin: 'The so-called 
October-flowering Cherry (P. sub¬ 
hirtella autumnalis), which last 
autumn flowered sparingly, is this 
spring bearing an unusually large quantity of its pleasing semi-double pink 
passing to white blossoms. This is really a first class plant and one which 
ought to be widely known; although the flowers are semi-double, it 
frecjuently produces fruit.” 
Primus Subhirtella Autumnalis 
(October Plowering Cherry) 
