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Of the maples, the striped, or moose-wood, and the mountain 

 maple with its erect panicles of flowers, followed by pendant 

 clusters of seed, which vie with the leaves in autumnal coloring, 

 are large shrubs or small trees worthy of cultivation. 



The hawthorns are of interest to the scientist from the many 

 species he has been able to subdivide them into, but of more interest 

 to us is the fact that the several varieties of "thorn apples" found in 

 our section are all beautiful small trees when properly cared for. 



Of Juneberries we have several species varying in size and blos- 

 som, and while of promise as fruit bearers tliey might also be 

 developed along ornamental lines. 



The chokeberries (Aronia), with rich shining foliage, white 

 flowers and brilliant red or black fruit, and flourishing in most 

 any soil, should add to the beauty of our shrubberies. 



The New Jersey tea (Ceanothus Americanus), a low shrub of 

 our dry wooded hillsides, with its dainty flowers in cream colored 

 masses and of spicy smell, is as well adapted to the lawn as the 

 dwarf spireas so much advertised by the nurseryman. 



Of the shrub cornels, or dogwoods, we have half a dozen varieties 

 valuable for flowers, foliage and fruit in summer, and some of 

 them for their colored bark as seen against the winter's snow. The 

 flowering dogwood is known as a southern and eastern species, but 

 several local lists and reports give it as found along the Mississippi 

 River "as far north as St. Cloud." I have been unable to find any 

 one who has actually seen it in this locality, but if it should be found 

 it would certainly be most valuable to propagate from. 



Leatherwood with its yellow flowers in early spring; shrubby 

 cinquefoil, continuing the same color into midsummer and fitted 

 to make bright the rocky and waste places ; and the three harmless 

 varieties of sumach, furnishing the crimson in fall to suceed the 

 gold of the others, are also on our list. It is to be regretted that two 

 of the most brilliantly decorated of the sumach family in the autumn 

 must be stricken out and classified among nature's outlaws. 



Of the Rubus, or brambles, probably of little use except in wild 

 shrubberies and thickets or to cover and protect some washing 

 bank, Minnesota has seven varieties. Of willows, there are thirteen 

 species ; some of the dwarf willows, seemingly equally at home 

 in the swamp or on sandy knoll, are worthy of investigation for 

 ornamental use. 



Elders, black and red, are beautiful in our pastures and none 

 the less so on our lawns. 



The strawberry bush, or, from its scarlet berries in the fall 

 and winter, the burning bush, is a fine shrub of our woodlands. 



