The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Cotoneaster (This genus comprises about)

This genus comprises about fifteen species, natives of Europe, North Africa, Central and West Asia, Siberia, the mountains of the East Indies, and Mexico. to those described on p. 387, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. Fontanesii (Desfontaines'). fl. white, disposed in small corymbs. fl. bright coral-red, large, round. l. oval-elliptic, greyish-green and glabrous above, silvery-silky beneath. Branches pubescent. 1886. This makes a round, compact bush about 3ft. high. (R. H. 1867, p. 33.)

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