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PRUNUS candicans. 
Snowy Plum. 
ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosacem. § Drupacee. 
PRUNUS. Supra, vol. 2. p. 136. 
P. candicans ; pedunculis brevibus geminis ternisve ramulisque pubescentibus, 
foliis laté ovatis subtiis candicantibus, stipulis angustissimis dentato-incisis 
longitudine petiolorum, calycibus campanulatis, Seringe in Decand. prodr. 
2. 532. ' 
P. candicans. Willd. enum. suppl. p. 32. ‘* Balbis cat. taur. 1813. p. 62.” 
Folia mollia, oblonga, simpliciter serrata, subtis petiolisque pallidis, 
pubescentibus. Flores albi, numerosissimit, in fasciculis multifloris congesti, 
ramulos undique tegentes. Pedicelli calycesgue pubescentes ; calycis tubus 
brevis, patens, lacinia ovate, intis tomentose. Petala oblonga, unguiculata. 
Fructus : 
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A fine hardy shrub, apparently not exceeding 5 or 6 feet 
in height. Its native country isunknown. It was first pub- 
lished by Mr. Balbis, in his Catalogue of the Turin Garden, 
in 1813 ; and in the same year its name appears in Schlech- 
tendahl’s Supplement to Willdenow’s Enumeration of the 
Berlin Garden, We believe that the date of its introduction 
to this country is 1825, in which year plants were received 
from Messrs. Baumanns, nursery-men. at Bollwiller, in Ger- 
many, by the Horticultural Society, in whose Garden the 
accompanying drawing was made, in May 1826. — 
This will prove a valuable addition to the hardy shrubs of 
our country : it is quite hardy, easily cultivated, and in the 
spring is so laden with white blossoms as to seem a mass of 
snow amidst the green leaves and rosy flowers of the season. 
From this circumstance its name has undoubtedly been taken, 
and not from any peculiar whiteness of its leaves, as Mr. 
