SOME OTHER TREES 



their handsome evergreen foliage and their 

 berries of red or black. 



One spring, the season and my opportunities 

 combined to provide a most pleasing feast of 

 color in the tree quest. It was afforded by the 

 juxtaposition at Conewago of the bloom -time 

 of the deep pink red -bud, miscalled ^^Judas 

 tree," and the large white dogwood, — both set 

 against the deep, almost black green of the 

 American cedar, or juniper. These two small 

 trees, the red -bud and the dogwood, are of 

 the class of admirable American natives that 

 are notable rather for beauty and brightness of 

 bloom than for tree form or size. 



The common dogwood — Cornus florida of the 

 botany — appears in bloom insidiously, one might 

 say; for the so-called flowers open slowly, 

 and they are green in color, and easily mis- 

 taken for leaves, after they have attained con- 

 siderable size. Gradually the green pales to 

 purest white, and the four broad bracts, with 

 the peculiar little pucker at the end of each, 

 swell out from the real flowers, which look like 

 stamens, to a diameter of often four inches. 

 With these flowers clustered thickly on the 



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