. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. PRUNUS hiiiry when young, but becoming glabrous. China. 8:3U8. P.'S. 15 1862:91; 1884:3'J«. Gn. 21, p. 275; 28:512; 55, p. 374. Gng. 5:165; 6:290; 8 most desirable bush, hardy in central New York and Ontario. It is sometimes grown as a standard by being worked on Plum, but it is then s
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. PRUNUS hiiiry when young, but becoming glabrous. China. 8:3U8. P.'S. 15 1862:91; 1884:3'J«. Gn. 21, p. 275; 28:512; 55, p. 374. Gng. 5:165; 6:290; 8 most desirable bush, hardy in central New York and Ontario. It is sometimes grown as a standard by being worked on Plum, but it is then short-lived. Both this and P. Japoniea are commonly worked on Plum, but better results are to be expected from own-rooted plants (got by layering or root-grafting). Var. P6tzoldi (P. PiUoUi, Koch. P. virgAla, Hort.). Branchlcts and adult Ivs. glabrous, the Ivs. ovate or c-Uiptic: tls. smaller, rose-color. China. 40. orientilis, Koehne [Am^gdalus orieni&lis, Mill. A. arijiiiteii. Lam.). Shrub, 3-8 ft. high: Ivs. small, nearly or quite sessile, oval, oblong or narrow obovate, nearly obtuse or short-pointed, entire: Hs. solitary, nearly 1 in. across, light rose-color, with or just pre- ceding the Ivs.: fr. ovate or oblong, thinly pubescent hut becoming glabrous. Asia Minor, etc. 12:1137. â tree-like. \\ns. Plant a tree t hard, splitting at maturiti/. with -; . ' â .:â¢.-.! I â¢,⢠,r-. very clo>rl, :: , ! - , - -., sâii- tarv ami .li'i-. :ir;i:- <'lI'.'[l lin' I â --., [.ink, .|,..v.\: fr. ;i large cumpri-ssi-,1 di-upi- with luird , splitting open at maturity and liberating the pitted stone (or Almond). Asia. Gn. 50:1088 (var. macrocarpa); 54 as an ornamental tree, but chiefly for the nuts (or pits of the fruit). There are double-fld., white-fld., and variegated-lvd. forms; also weeping forms. Var. macro- carpa is an early-blooming erect-growing form with fls. 2 in. across and very showy. See Linn. aOOl. Prunus ilicifolia (X}4
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