26 FAMILIAR FEATURES OF THE ROADSIDE. 



rocky roadsides in Pennsylvania, on Long Island, and 

 in the West as far as Minnesota. This shrub, from 

 six to eight feet high, bears on the tips of its branch- 

 lets clusters of rather unpleasantly 

 scented, four- to fi ve-petaled greenish 

 white flowers in early June. The 

 composed of three 

 leaflets without 

 teeth. The hop 

 tree is very beauti- 

 ful in spring when in 

 bloom, and in the fall its 

 arge clusters of decora- 

 tive, hoplike fruit make 

 it a charmingly orna- 

 mental shrub ; it is 

 closely related to the 

 ailantus, a fact not difficult to re- 

 alize after one has noticed the 

 disagreeable odor of the blossoms ; 

 but, notwithstanding this slight drawback, the hop 

 tree is decorative and deserving of wide cultivation. 



In June we will also see the pretty upright green- 

 ish yellow flower clusters of the mountain maple 

 (Acer spicatum) on the tall, branching, slender, 

 greenish stems of this shrub, whose dainty, drooping, 

 sharp-pointed leaves are invariably outlined in high 



Hop Tree : fruit at A. 



