96 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1900. 



usually regarded as a native and for our purposes we may so 

 consider it. This plant is a decorative one and may he freely 

 used in landscape work with good effect. 



Our common high bush blueberry, Vaccinium corymbositnu 

 is exceedingly valuable for its attractive autumn colors. 



The species of Crataegus are all desirable as are the wild 

 roses, the spice bush, the bay berry, the hazel-nut and a host of 

 others, which we cannot mention here. 



EVERGREEN TREES. 



The hemlock is one of the finest of all our evergreens, native 

 or introduced. It is, I am glad to say, coining into favor and 

 has been used extensively for park planting during the past few 

 years. As a young tree it is graceful in the extreme and makes 

 good single specimens, or composes well with other trees. 



Our common white pine must always be mentioned as a tree 

 of beauty and merit for ornamental purposes. The pitch pine, 

 too, Pinus rigida, often grows into shapes which are peculiarly 

 picturesque and attractive. 



If spruces are desired, why not use our common black spruce, 

 Picea nigra, of the forests, instead of planting the Norway 

 spruce everywhere? The white spruce, P. alba, is a very hand- 

 some tree. The fir balsam, Abies balsamea, is worthy of more 

 notice, being especially handsome when young and grown as a 

 specimen tree upon the lawn. 



Where a columnar form is desired, I know of nothing in all 

 the realm of horticulture better than the common red cedar, 

 Juniper us Virginiana. This tree is characteristic of Connecti- 

 cut hill-slopes and one of the most charming features of her 

 scenery. Not least of the many merits that this tree possesses 

 is the great variety of forms into which it grows naturally. If 

 we examine the cedars on a single well covered hillside, we are 

 sure to find some which are columnar in form and all the way of 

 a size, while others are round-topped and full ; some clothed 

 with green to the ground, while others show their brown shred- 

 ded stems between the green of the sward and the evergreen 

 boughs. Have you ever noticed how dark these trees look in 



