ACCORDING TO SEASON 



white, showy, petal-like leaves. Occasionally 

 Pink dog- these petal-like leaves are pink. The only pink 

 dogwood I remember to have seen was growing 

 in a lane near the Bronx River some years ago. 

 Whether it is still standing I do not know. But 

 I shall always carry in my mind a picture of its 

 rosy loveliness as it flung its spreading pink- 

 wreathed branches across the lane, feathery with 

 young green things and bordered with columbines, 

 bellworts, wild-ginger, Dutchman's breeches, and 

 other flowering plants whose exact identity I do 

 not recall. 



The white clusters of the wild-cherry-trees 

 Cherry- lighten the hill-sides. Along the country lanes 

 droop the slender racemes of the choke-cherry. 

 Among the later maples to flower are the striped 

 and the mountain species. The mountain-maple 

 is a tall shrub, easily identified by its erect clusters 

 of greenish flowers, which, later in the year, are re- 

 Mapies placed by vivid pink-tinged fruit. The striped spe- 

 cies is a small tree which owes its name to its light 

 bark, which is streaked with dark lines. It bears 

 its greenish flowers in loose, drooping racemes. 

 In some places it is known as " moose-wood." 



Perhaps more actually decorative effects are se- 

 cured by the shrubs that flower in May than by 

 either the trees or the smaller plants. One of the 

 earliest of these is the red-berried elder, with its 



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