ABSTRACT
In the catalogue of fruit cultivated in the Horticultural Gardens of London, published in 1842, 99 varieties are enumerated. The Pedro-Ximenes grape presents a peculiarity by which it can be at once recognized among a host of other varieties, namely, that when the fruit is nearly ripe the nerves of the leaves. Gallesio found that the willow-leafed and the Little China oranges reproduced their proper leaves and fruit; but the seedlings were not quite equal in merit to their parents. The peach has also produced in China a small class of trees valued for ornament, namely the double-flowered. The weeping cherry, is valuable only as an ornament, and, according to Downing, is a charming little tree, with slender, weeping branches, clothed with small, almost myrtle-like foliage. The flowers of the Sportsman are furnished with very large coloured bracteae. Roses offer a number of forms generally ranked as species, namely, R. centifolia, gallica, alba, damascena, spinosissima.
