Description of Trees 179 



cherry, the tree is hardy and lasts a much longer time. 

 Among the best of these are: 



Parkman's Double-flowering {Pyrus Halliana). — This 

 is a rather dwarf tree with rich dark foliage and producing 

 beautiful bright rose-colored double flowers. 



Chinese Double-flowering Apple {P. spedabilis, var. flore 

 roseo-plena). — Flowers rather larger and more showy than 

 the last. 



Siberian Apple {P- haccatd), see Fig. 117. — This is one 

 of the most beautiful forms of the Siberian apple, being 

 covered in the spring with dense masses of single pink 

 flowers and in the fall with golden yellow fruit less than \ 

 inch in diameter. It seems to be hardy and long lived. 



Liquidambar or Sweet-gum Tree (Liquidambar styracU 

 flua). — A most beautiful tree of regular conical growth, 

 fine dark foliage which takes on a beautiful red and yellow 

 color in the autumn; a native of the middle and Southern 

 States, but proves hardy in New England. 



Umbrella Magnolia {Magnolia tripetala). — Of a rather 

 broad irregular form, its large leaves, often nearly 2 feet long 

 by 8 inches wide, and large showy white flowers make 

 this tree a conspicuous object on the lawn. Like the tulip- 

 tree and the other magnoHas, its roots are soft and easily 

 injured and must be treated very carefully in transplanting. 



Cucumber Tree (Jf. acuminata). — A very fine tree, 

 pyramidal in form and producing yellowish fragrant flowers 

 in considerable abundance. It thrives best in deep warm 

 soil. See Street-trees. 



Soulange's Magnolia {M. Soiilangeana), Fig. 99. This 

 sm.all tree is the most beautiful, most hardy and useful of 

 the magnolias, the large cup-shaped blossoms of white 

 and purplish color coming before the leaves, making it a 

 very conspicuous and beautiful lawn-tree. 



Showy Magnolia {M. S var. speciosa). — Like the last, 



