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LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 



twenty feet high, its profusion of pure white flowers in early- 

 spring have drawn attention of ornamental planters to it, until 

 it is now sought for and planted by every landscapist of any 

 taste. As a small tree to skirt the boundaries of evergreen 

 groups, peeping out from among them with its snowy flowers 

 in spring, and its brilliant red berries and dark red foliage in 

 autumn, we have few equal to it. 



There is a variegated-leaved variety also, with its leaves 

 blotched with white, that when the plant is to stand with other 

 deciduous trees is better because of the greater attraction 

 created by its foliage; and there is also one, the sanguinea, 

 with its young shoots of a bright scarlet color, that is extremely 

 ornamental, whether planted by itself or against a relief of 

 evergreens. The European dogwood (musculo,) has small 

 yellow flowers of no great beauty, but in the autumn its oval 

 scarlet berries are very ornamental, and hang a long time on the 

 tree. 



Elm Ulmus. From the abundance of elms, everywhere native, 

 over our country, and the almost perfect certainty of their living 

 and growing freely when transplanted with ordinary care, it has 

 become one of our most popular street and park trees. Grace- 

 fully elegant by reason of its long sweeping branches, and its 

 loose pendant yet tufted masses of foliage, vigorous and almost 

 lofty in its growth, and adapting itself as it were to all soils, wet 

 or dry, clay or sand, the American white elm has no superior as 

 a street or park tree, where it can be planted so as to give it 

 room for development ; but when planted, as it too often is, in 

 small grounds, or on the sides of narrow streets or avenues 

 where its limbs have to be lopped off or trimmed up, it is 

 unsuited, because in so doing its beauty is destroyed, and the 

 owner has only a long bare trunk where he might have had, 

 with some other variety, a mass of foliage and beauty. 



The red elm (fulva) is more upright in its growth than the 



