The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . quarters of an inch across ; the dark,shining red fruits about the same in diameter. Var. -This is a fine plaut, and one of themost distinct and striking of the Old World foliage is more abundant thau that of the ordi-nary C. pinnatifida, also of a deeper green, aud muchlarger size. I have seen leaves during the past C. Pymcantha.—This well-known evergreen shrubis a native of South Europe, and has been in cultiva-tion in Britain since 1629. Although perfectly hardyin the open, its f
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . quarters of an inch across ; the dark,shining red fruits about the same in diameter. Var. -This is a fine plaut, and one of themost distinct and striking of the Old World foliage is more abundant thau that of the ordi-nary C. pinnatifida, also of a deeper green, aud muchlarger size. I have seen leaves during the past C. Pymcantha.—This well-known evergreen shrubis a native of South Europe, and has been in cultiva-tion in Britain since 1629. Although perfectly hardyin the open, its full beauty as a fruiting shrub is seenonly when it is grown against a wall, or in somesheltered sunny corner where the wood can be wellripened. There is now in the Terrace Gardens atRichmond a smdl specimen, planted among dwarfevergreens on a sloping bank near a wall, which is amost beautiful object. The horizontal branches areloaded with pendent clusters of brilliant scarlet leaves are \ to 1£ inch long, ovate-lanceolate,crenate and glabrous. Each axillary branch ends in a. f<-S£#9jV ^^-^i Fig. 28.—mis bakeriana.(See Report of Royal Horticultural Society; p 114, summer G incLes long. The iobing is not so deep,and the Itaf is thicker in substance ; the midrib andveins, as well as the joung wood, are of a darker,tedder colour. The fruit is rounded, oblong, andresembles that of the North American C. punctata,being frequently an inch across, of a dark lustrous red,and marked with scattered dots ; the calyx lobes areshort and cuspidate. It has been known as C. tar-tarica, Messrs. Veitch having introduced it fromTartary. They obtained a First-class Certificate forit at one of the Royal Horticultural Societys meet-ings in October, 1836 ; it had, however, been in cul-tivation long previously. There are old tree?, 15 feethigh, in the Kew Arboretum. Several other namesunder which this tree has been distributed are givenabove. stiff, sharp spine. When grown in the ope
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