HARDWOODS ON THE COUNTRY ESTATE 



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The Sour Gum or Tupelo 



note its characteristic habit of growth, with flat-topped contorted crown and drooping side branches. 



in the autumn its deep red leaves make it a strikingly decorative feature in any forest landscape 



behind the gaudy natural leaf. Young 

 dogwoods can be transplanted wild in 

 late autumn, or a 5-foot nursery bush 

 will cost you 50 cents ; also easily grown 

 from seed. Your dead dogwoods make 

 excellent fire wood, also salable for fine 

 wood work as it is very hard and pure 

 white, the bark makes as good a febri- 

 fuge in medicine as the chinchona, and 

 can be substituted for galls in making 

 ink, while our Indians used to get a fine 



scarlet dye from the more fibrous roots 

 of the young trees. 



The "other dogwood" corniis alterni- 

 folia, has a leaf so like the flowering 

 variety that you arc sure it is a dogwood 

 anyhow, but its flower is a cyme of 

 small white flowerets, sometimes pale 

 yellow, and the fruit is of blucblack 

 ui:)right berries on small reddish stems, 

 altogether a different ])lant from the 

 flowering dogwood. It is called the 

 osier" in the countrv, and it 



green 



