Handbook of Trp:es of the NoirniKitx Si 



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The Wasliinirton Haw i^ 

 clearly deliiicd ticc with >1 

 niaiked iiulividuality. It i\ 

 of 25 or 30 ft. at times, will 



a beautiful and 

 luler tlionis and 

 liiiis tile hei-ht 

 liiftv rounded <ir 



spreading tup and a clear truid.; Ill or \2 in. 



in diameter and li or 7 ft. tn the branches, or 



is sometimi's only a lai\L:c sjireading shrub. 



riie bark of the trunk is of a -rnyish or pal,' 



brown etdor and exfoliates in thin small seah-. 



It occupies tiie low moist but widl drained 



soil of bottomdand.s and the banks of streams. 



but is nowhere abundant in a wild state. It 



has, however, prol)al)ly been more extensivel\ 



planted for ornamental purposes than an; 



other American species, and may have beconu' 



naturalized in localities outside of its native 



habitat indicated on the accompanying map. 



It is hardy at least as far north as New York. 



It is said to be even more extensively grown 



in Europe than in this country, having been 



introduced as early as in the seventeenth cen 



tury and was named there. It has long been 



popular for hedges, as well as ornament, and 



is said to have received its common name from 



the fact that nearly a century ago it was 



introduced from th.e vicinity of Washington, 



D. C, into Chester Co., Pa., where it became 



popular and was extensively planted. 



Lenvcs broad-ovate to tr'ansular. IV2-2V2 in- 

 Ions, truncate to obtuse or wide-cordate and cntiri' 

 at base, mostl.v acute or acuminate, commonly witli 

 3-7 spreading pointed coarsely serrate lobes, thin 

 and lustrous dark green at maturity, paler be- 

 neath ; petioles Ions and slender. Flowers in 

 early .Tune, in maiiy-fiowercd glabrous corymbs, 

 calyx with short lol)es pnbi'scent inside : stamens 

 20, rose-colored : styl(>s L'-."!, bairy at base. Fruit 

 ripening in October and ixTsisting on the branches 

 until spring, depressed globose, scarcely ^ in. in 

 diameter, bright I'ed. the calyx-lobes falling away ; 

 nutlets :5-5, about 1; in. hmg. 



