78 Trees 



The Rowan Tree is famed in verse and legend, but surely 

 no tenderer poem was ever penned in its honour than the 

 old immortal song: 



" O Rowan tree ! O Rowan tree ! thou 'It aye be dear to me ; 

 Entwined thou art wi' mony ties o' hame and infancy. 

 Thy leaves were aye the first o' spring, thy flowers the simmer's pride ; 

 There was nae sic a bonnie tree in a' the countrie side, 



O Rowan tree! 



" How fair wert thou in simmer time, wi' a' thy clusters white ! 

 How rich and gay thy autumn dress, wi' berries red and bright ! 

 We sat aneath thy spreading shade ; the bairnies round thee ran ; 

 They pu'd thy bonnie berries red, and necklaces they strang, 



O Rowan tree ! " 



WESTERN CHOKE CHERRY 



Prunus demissa. Rose Family 



A small tree or shrub, attaining a height of thirty feet, but usually 

 smaller. Leaves: obovate, thick, acute at the apex, short-serrate. 

 Flowers: racemes densely-flowered, terminating leafly branches. Fruit: 

 a drupe, globose, stone globular. 



This Cherry has long-shaped clusters of small white 

 flowers at the ends of the leafy branches, and the edible 

 fruit is fleshy, dark purple, and sweet, but slightly astringent, 

 the seed containing prussic acid. 



DWARF MAPLE 



Acer glabrum. Maple Family 



A small tree or shrub, with a maximum height of thirty-five feet. 

 Leaves: opposite, simple, palmately lobed, the lobes acute, sharply ser- 

 rate. Flowers: in numerous small, lateral and terminal sessile, corymb- 

 like racemes. Fruit: of two long-winged samaras, joined at the base, 

 one seeded, glabrous, shining, little diverging. 



This is the Maple of the mountains, and has lovely foliage, 

 greenish-yellow flowers, and quantities of long-winged 

 fruit. 



