^Q6 MISSOUBI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The red maple is found in Callaway county in and southeast Mis- 

 souri. 



Pin oak { Q. palustus) abounds on wet bottoms and near streams 

 and near edge of prairies, but becomes rare in western Missouri. 



Bartram's oak (^. heterophylla) has been observed in Shelby, Sul- 

 livan and DeKalb counties. The young leaves appear like those of the 

 laurel oak, but are lobed as they become older. Spanish oak occurs 

 rarely only in eastern and central and more common in southern Mis- 

 souri. Pawpaw is found nearly throughout the State, but chiefly 

 abounds on rich lands near large rivers. The plum {P. Americana) is 

 found throughout the State, but not so common in the southeast. It 

 has many varieties, some of no use. 



The prums chicasa is, Gomvnon in eastern and southern Missouri, 

 but is not found in the northwest. I have observed it in Bates and 

 Lafayette, which may be its western limit. It also has many varieties. 

 Some are very fine. A smaller plum is found on Missouri hills in the 

 northwest, which may be another species or probably only a variety 

 of p. Americana. 



The P. texana I have observed on Arkansas valley, in Kansas, 

 and have it grown from the seed in my garden, but the fruit is nearly 

 always diseased. 



The seven bark {iieillia opulifolia) is found near Kirksville, 

 Linneus and Brunswick and gouthwestwardly, and is often found east 

 •of that line, but no further west. 



The white oak is not found west of Nodaway river, and is also rare 

 in the border counties south of the Missouri river and south of Jackson 

 ■county. The swamp white oak {Q. hicolor) abounds in eastern Mis- 

 souri, but is rarer in the west, and I have not found it west of a line 

 through Albany and Savannah. 



The black haw {Vihurnam prunifolia) although very common 

 in eastern Missouri has not been found beyond a line through Gentry 

 and southwest to Buchanan. 



Post oak and fragrant ?,\im.2i(ih {Rhus aromatica) I have not ob- 

 served west of a line a little east of Liberty, thence to Maryville. But 

 the fragrant sumach I have also found on head of Missouri river in 

 Montana. 



The red birch is confined east of a line through Maysville, thence 

 to the mouth of Crooked river thpough Johnson and southwest through 

 Bates. Black Jack oak I have not observed in north Missouri west of 

 the last named line, but in south Missouri it occurs in probably all the 

 counties and its last occurrence west I have seen on sandy soil in 

 Woodson county, Kansas. In Kansas it invariably indicates the pres- 

 ence of sandy soil. 



