Trees, Shrubs and Vines 



of true arboreal size, a variety of it having full-double 

 flowers, two inches across, and very fragrant. 



Passing from apples to cherries, there are several 

 species, mostly foreign, that have very ornamental 

 bloom. Few trees in the Park are more attractive when 

 in blossom than the wild black cherry ; all frequenters 

 of the " Ramble " must be familiar with the remarkable 

 specimen in the northwest corner, near what is now 

 the ''Reading-room." Besides this species, we have 

 the wild red cherry, and the bird cherry of Europe, the 

 double-flowering Chinese cherry, and some from Japan ; 

 and all are familiar with the flowering almond, of Asiatic 

 origin, whose stems are buried in pink and white blos- 

 soms in early spring. From the same source comes the 

 double-flowering peach in various colors, varieties of the 

 familiar peach-tree. Of ornamental plum-trees the most 

 important is perhaps the Persian purple-leaved plum, P. 

 pissardii, a low tree or shrub, decorative in foliage rather 

 than in flower. And lastly, no lawn should be without 

 the Japanese quince {Pyrus japonic a), one of the fresh- 

 est delights of spring, decking the still leafless bush with 

 an abundance of large pink or sometimes white blossoms, 

 the very emblem of spring's fairest anticipations. After 

 the flowering season is past — though it develops blos- 

 soms at intervals all summer — the shrub is still attractive 

 for its dark and almost glossy foliage. This brief list 

 emphasizes the versatility of that pre-eminent botanical 

 group, the rose family. 



Seldom does one find cultivated forms credited to 

 Siberia ; yet that inhospitable land gives to the Park five 

 delicate leguminose species of the Siberian pea-tree — 



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