526 AMERICAN FOREST TREES 



BLUB DOGWOOD (Cornus alternifolia) is given that name because 

 of the blue fruit it bears. It has a number of other names, among them 

 being purple dogwood, green osier, umbrella tree, pigeonberry, and 

 alternate-leaved dogwood, the last being simply a translation of its 

 botanical name. It grows in more northern latitudes than the flowering 

 dogwood, and does not range as far south. It is found from Nova 

 Scotia to Alabama, and westward to Minnesota, but its southern habitat 

 lies along the Appalachian mountain ranges. It attains size and assumes 

 form similar to the flowering dogwood. The wood is heavy, hard, 

 brown, tinged with red, the sapwood white. It is a deep forest tree, but 

 has been domesticated in a few instances where it has been planted as 

 ornament. The wood seems to possess the good qualities of flowering 

 dogwood, but no reports of uses for it have been made. 



Two varieties of flowering dogwood have been produced by culti- 

 vation, weeping dogwood (Cornus florida penduld), and red-bract 

 dogwood (Cornus florida rubrd). English cornel or dogwood (Cornus 

 mas) has been planted in many parts of this country. The so-called 

 Jamaica dogwood is not in the dogwood family. 



ANDROMEDA (Andromeda ferruginea) is a small southern tree of South Carolina, 

 Georgia, and Florida, and in the latter state is sometimes known as titi, though other 

 trees also bear that name. The largest are thirty feet high, if by chance one can be 

 found standing erect, for most of them prefer to sprawl at full length on the ground. 

 The fruit is a small berry of no value. The wood is weak, but hard and sufficiently 

 compact to receive fine polish. The heartwood is light brown, tinged with red. 



