OF ORNAMENTAL TREES. 189 



corymbose. Fruit globose, small, red. 

 Mountain ash; Eowan. Native of the moun- 

 tains of Europe. Flowers in May. 



This beautiful tree grows about thirty feet 

 high, and has the round-headed spreading habit 

 of the apple, with the foliage of an ash. Its 

 clusters of white flowers, followed by red ber- 

 ries, are its chief attraction. It thrives best 

 in a loose dry soil, in a situation somewhat 

 shaded. The P. Americana, Dec., is consider- 

 ed to be a variety of this. It is propagated 

 as the last. Sometimes they will not appear 

 the first year, unless the seed has been thrown 

 in a heap to ferment previously. 



There is a specimen at Bartram forty-five 

 feet high and three feet in circumference. 



3. P. BACCATA, Linnceus. Leaves equally 

 serrulated. Peduncles clustered. Fruit small 

 and berry -like. Calyx deciduous. Cherry 

 apple. Native of Siberia. 



A small tree, seldom exceeding twenty feet 

 high, but very popular on account of the pro- 

 fusion of its red cherry-like fruit. 



3. P. CORONARIA, Linnceus. Leaves ovate, 

 slightly heart-shaped at the base, sharply 

 serrate or nearly lobed, smoothish. Pedun- 



