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foreign — or as the nurserymen of Japan have 

 worked to attain the superlative merit with 

 their native material which there is no denying 

 it possesses. We do not know, as a consequence, 

 what possibilities we may have here. 



There is, however, the hop tree or wafer ash 

 — Ptelea trifoliata — less than twenty-five feet in 

 height often, never more, neat and clean cut; 

 the mountain ash — Sorbus Americana — evenly 

 round headed and trim, reaching thirty feet 

 and having great clusters of scarlet berries 

 gleaming among its green in late summer and 

 autumn; the shadbush or service berry — Ame- 

 lanchier Canadensis, also Amelanchier Botryap- 

 ium — the former sometimes reaching fifty feet, 

 the latter stopping at twenty-five or thirty; the 

 cock-spur thorn — Crataegus Crus-galli — twenty- 

 five feet tall, and carrying dull red fruits all 

 winter; and the fringe tree — Chionanthus Vir- 

 ginica — twenty to thirty feet high and branch- 

 ing low on its trunk, yet nevertheless a tree and 

 not a shrub. Then there are the two small 

 maples — Acer spicatum and Acer Pennsylvani- 

 cum — the mountain maple and the moosewood 

 or striped maple, the first rather bushy and 

 about thirty feet in height, the second short of 

 trunk but less bushy and forty feet high; all 

 these at least are available and are very gen- 



