. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. PRUNUS hairy when young, but becoming glabrous. China. 8:308. 15:1532. 1862:91; 1884:396. 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 u standard by b
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. PRUNUS hairy when young, but becoming glabrous. China. 8:308. 15:1532. 1862:91; 1884:396. 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 u standard by being worked on Plum, but it is then short-lived. Both this and P, Japonica are commonly worked on Plum, but better results are to be expected from own-roote<l plants (got by layering or root-grafting). Var. P6tzoldi (P. Pdzoldl, Koch. P. virijdta, Hort.). Branclilets and adult Ivs. glabrous, the Ivs. ovate or elliptic: lis. smaller, rose-color. China. 40. orient&lis, Koehne {Amijgdalus orientilis, Mill. A. argintea. Lam.). Shrub, 3-8 ft. high: Ivs. small, nearly or quite sessile, oval, oblong or narrow obovate, nearly obtuse or short-pointed, entire: Us. solitary, nearly 1 in. across, light rose-color, with or just pre- ceding the Ivs.: fr. ovate or oblong, thinly pubescent but becoming glabrous. Asia Minor, etc. 12:1137. AA. Plant a tree or tree-like. B. Fr. hard, splitting at maturity. 41. Am^gdalus, Stokes (Am^gdalus communis, Linn.). Almond. Figs. 63, 64. Peach-like tree, 10-25 it. tall, with gray bark: Ivs. lanceolate, firm and shining, very closely serrate: tls. large (1 in. and more across!, soli- tary and appearing before the Ivs., pink, showy: fr. a large compressed drupe with hard flesh, 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
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