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a marvel of frost white. If you peep into these little 

 white urns you will see the ten stamens inserted on the 

 corollas. The flowers soon change into small, dry, five- 

 angled capsules of five cells. These capsules are very 

 clinging (persistent) and may be seen on the tree late 

 in the autumn and winter. If you know the fruit of 

 the sweet pepper bush, you will be reminded of their 

 resemblance to the fruit pods of that shrub. They look 

 very much like long fingers, erect on the branches. The 

 tree is a slender one, with gray bark, through which 

 suffuses a reddish hue. It is furrowed and scaly. The 

 tree gets its genus name from the Greek words oxus, 

 sharp, sour ; and dendron, tree. It belongs, as you see 

 by its pretty little urn-shaped flowers, to the great 

 Ericacece or heath family. While you are here look 

 at the fine staghorn sumac just east of the hydrant. 

 You can tell it by its sticky, pubescent end branches. 

 Just as the Drive bends to the south, in its corner, is a 

 handsome mass of box. 



Pyrus Soulardi. (Soulard's Crab Apple. No. 63.) 

 There is quite a cluster of these handsome crabs, at the 

 left (west) of the Walk, just as it bends westerly from 

 the Drive, after passing over Transverse Road No. 4. 

 They are small sized trees, lusty and healthful. At first 

 glance you might think them hawthorns, for they are of 

 the hawthorn look. But their lack of thorns will save 

 you from this error. According to the best author- 

 ities, the Soulard's crab is now regarded as a hybrid 

 between the common apple (Pyrus mains) and the 

 western crab apple (Pyrus loensis). The leaves are 

 roundish-ovate, obtuse or truncate at the base, and 



