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light green foliage and airiness contrast beautifully -with the 

 more sombre shades of evergreen. 



Dogwood — Cornus. — The common Dogwood (Cornus Florida) 

 abounds in all sections of the Middle States. It docs not often 

 grow over twenty feet high, but its profusion of white flowers in 

 early spring have drawn the attention of ornamental planters to 

 it, until it is now sought for and planted by every landscapist of 

 any taste. As a small tree to skirt the boundaries of evergreen 

 groups, peeping out from among them with its snowy flowers in 

 spring, and its brilliant red berries and dark red foliage in 

 autumn, few can equal it There is a variegated-leaved variety, 

 its leaves blotched with white, that when the plant is to stand 

 with other deciduous trees, is better because of the greater 

 attractions created by its foliage, and there is also one, the 

 Sanguinea. with its young shoots of a bright scarlet color, that is 

 ornamental whether planted by itself or against a relief of 

 evergreens. 



Elm — From the abundance of Elms, everywhere native, over 

 our country, and the almost perfect certainty of their living after 

 transplanting with ordinary care, it has become one of our most 

 popular street and park trees. Gracefully elegant, by reason of 

 its long sweeping branches and its loose pendant^ its tufted 

 masses of foliage, vigorous and almost lofty in its growth, and 

 adapting itself as it were to all soils, wet or dry r clay or sand, 

 the American White Elm has no superior as a street or park 

 tree — where it can be planted so as to give it room for develop- 

 ment, but when planted, as it too often is, in small grounds or 

 on the sides of narrow streets or avenues, where its limbs have 

 to be lopped off or trimmed up, it is unsuited, because in so 

 doing its beauty is destroyed and the owner has only a long bare 

 trunk where he might have had, with some other variet} T , a mass 

 of foliage and beauty. Th<5 Red Elm (Feilca) is more upright in 

 its growth than the White and does not attain as gteat size, but 

 it is not as desirable for planting in positions too confined for the 

 White, as the European (Camputris) or Scotch (Montana) Elms. 

 The European or English Elm forms a lofty tree of less spread- 

 ing habit than our White Elm, and in retaining its foliage later 



