410 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



FRUIT TREES FOR ORNAMENT. 



Although we may not entirely agree with the Indiana Farmer in all that we 

 quote from it in the following, still there is an excellent sentiment running 

 through it all : 



Can any one tell me why a grape vine is not a suitable ornament for a front 

 porch, or what would be the objection to a fine, standard pear or grand wide- 

 spreading apple tree in the lawn ? Was ever a blossoming shade tree more 

 beautiful than either of these when the flowers come out? Is not the rich 

 green of the leaves a thing of beauty all the season ? "When the purple clusters 

 hang thick on the vine and the red apples and juicy pears shine through the 

 leaves in autumn it certainly could not take anything from the beauty of che 

 scene. When one has but little space, as in a village lot, could not the useful 

 and ornamental be profitably combined by putting in handsome fruit trees in 

 the place of those designed only for shade? And a pretty dwarf pear or two 

 ■would look well among the shrubbery. A vow of young cherries before a fine 

 house with a many pillared porch is one of tlie pleasant memories of my early 

 ■walks to school. The old doctor who owned the property gave those trees as 

 much care and attention as he ever did a rich patient. He was almost daily 

 doing something for them, if it was only to pour a bucket of suds about their 

 roots, loosen the ground a little, or bury a dish of bones under the soil. But 

 their marvelous growth was the wonder of the village, and in a very few years 

 they cast a deep shade over the whole sidewalk and yielded a bountiful supply 

 of sreat ox-heart cherries. Let us give our children all such memories we can, 

 for they are healthful for mind and body both. Fruit or no fruit means riches 

 or poverty in the minds of our little children, and there is certainly a thriftiness 

 about a home well supplied with this luxury which is better than an old stock- 

 ing full of hard dollars in the strong chest, with only one old crab-apple tree 

 in the pasture lot. 



ORNAMENTAL TREES. 



The following select list of ornamental trees for grounds of some extent, was 

 made by H. H. Hunnewell, whose magnificent place near Boston is well known 

 as one of the finest specimens of landscape planting in America: 



DECIDUOUS TREES. 



Elm, American, 



" English, 

 Oak, White, 



« Scarlet, 

 Maple, Sugar, 



*• Norway, 



" Scarlet, 



" Japanese atropurpureum, 

 Other Japanese Maples, 

 Beech, American, 



" Copper, 



" Weeping, 

 Cut-leaved Weeping Birch, 



Tulip tree. 

 Magnolia acuminata. 

 Magnolia Lennei, 

 Linden, European, 

 " American, 

 Virgilia lutea [Yellow-wood], 

 Salisburia [Gingko], 

 Dogwood, 

 Catalpa, 



Flowering Cherry, 

 Common Chestnut, 

 Liquidambar, 

 Weeping Willow. 



