| | |rather round-fruited kind
| | |with the smooth skin is the
| | |best both for flavour and
| | |beauty--a mature tree
| | |without leaves in winter,
| | |has a remarkably graceful,
| | |arching, almost weeping
| | |growth. The other kind is
| | |of a rather more rigid
| | |form, and though its
| | |woolly-coated, pear-shaped
| | |fruits are larger and
| | |strikingly handsome, the
| | |whole tree has a coarse
| | |look, and just lacks the
| | |attractive grace of the
| | |other. They will do fairly
| | |well almost anywhere,
| | |though they prefer a rich
| | |loamy soil, and a cool,
| | |damp, or even swampy
| | |place."--_Wood and Garden_,
| | |p. 128.
| | |
*P. japonica |China and Japan |Scarlet; |A beautiful shrub, one of
| |April, |the most valuable
| |earlier in|introductions that we have
| |some |ever had from China and
| |gardens |Japan. It is the "japonica"
| | |of many a cottage and
| | |villa wall, and in
| | |sheltered warm gardens
| | |begins to bloom before
| | |winter has gone, a bright,
| | |cheery, an