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Ornamental Shrubs. 



from the fervid sunbeams at noonday. This admirable 

 grove, by way of eminence, has acquired the name of The 

 Dogwoods. During a progress of nearly seventy miles 



through this high forest 

 there was constantly 

 presented to view, on 

 one hand or the other, 

 spacious groves of this 

 flowering tree, which 

 must in the spring sea- 

 son, when covered with 

 blossoms, exhibit a most 

 pleasing scene." And 

 Professor E. L. Greene 

 in our own time says : 

 " One of the delightful, 

 unfading pictures in our memory of eastern woods in their 

 June glory is that of the shrub or small tree known as 

 flowering dogwood. A full-grown specimen with its wide- 

 spread and stratified branches, each ultimate twig bearing 

 a large, white, cruciform involucre, which commonly passes 

 for a corolla, is an object of striking beauty in the finest 

 glades where it occurs." 



The species has several varieties of value in cultiva- 

 tion. Of these C. f. pendiila, or weeping dogwood, is one 

 of the most striking, having foliage and flowers like its 

 parent, but borne on pendulous branches on every side of 

 the upright stem, and extending to the ground. The 

 branches are firm and rather stiff, though not always so 

 represented in the pictures shown in the nurserymen's 



FLOWERING DOGWOOD. 



