Sycamores. Plane-Tree 



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an interesting, pendent, ball-shai)C fruit (buttons). Still more inter- 

 esting and effective in its color scheme is the yellowish-brown to gray 

 bark which peels off in irregular patches ("'Clothes tree"), exposing a 



Fig. 106. — Strawberry Bush. Pirns Sinensis Lindl. 



white to greenish skin, and giving the stem and branches a mottled 

 appearance. 



P. occidentalis Linn. (259), the American Sycamore or Buttonwood, 

 is hardy into Canada, but unfortunately liable to injury by a leaf fun- 

 gus. It grows to ponderous size. Its soft, grayish, large foliage does 

 not group well with other trees, hence it should be used alone, and 



