OF ORNAMENTAL TREES. 71 



nate. Flowers in loose racemes ; petals linear 

 lanceolate. June berry, shad-flower. Flow 

 ers in April. Native of most parts of the 

 United States. 



A pretty tree, fifteen to twenty feet high. 

 It grows very slenderly, and with few shoots, 

 unless in a very rich loam. The leaves have 

 mostly a white silky appearance, and the 

 flowers and succeeding berries are very or 

 namental. I have seen a specimen thirty 

 feet high, and three feet in circumference, 

 but it is probably turned into &quot;post and 

 rails&quot; by this time. 



They may be propagated by seeds, but in 

 English nurseries are generally grafted on 

 the hawthorn, and sometimes on the pear and 

 quince. Seeds produce the finest trees. The 

 latter modes produce plants quickest. 



AMYGDALUS, Linn&us. Nat. Ord. Dru- 

 paceoe. Icosandria, Monogynia, Linn. Calyx 

 5-cleft, petals 5. Fruit a drupe. Seed an 

 ovate nut with reticulate furrows. 



A. PERSICA, Linnceus. Variety pendula, 

 with the branches drooping, is a very pretty 

 ornamental peach, when budded as tall as it 



