132 THE FOREST TREE CULTURIST. 
CHAPTER XI. 
SMALL DECIDUOUS TREES. 
Tue following list comprises the most useful and crna- 
mental varieties of native trees of small size, very few of 
which grow to more than thirty feet high. Most of them 
are desirable for ornament; besides, they will make excel- 
lent screens, forming an almost impenetrable barrier to 
winds when planted thickly, and they are generally better 
for protection than trees of larger growth. There is also 
less danger of their being blown down by hurricanes, as 
es the storm, 
That makes the high elm couch and rends the oak, 
The humble lily spares. A thousand blows, 
That shake the lofty monarch of the forests, 
The lesser trees feel not.” 
Atnvs. (Alder.) 
There are numerous species of the Alder, but most of 
our native ones are mere shrubs, and of but little value. 
Some of the larger-growing foreign species might be intro- 
duced and cultivated with profit, as they now are in many 
portions of Europe. The only native species found east 
of the Rocky Mountains that deserves any notice is the 
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following— 
Anus tncana (Speckled Alder).—Leaves very broad, 
oval, sharply serrate, sometimes toothed, downy beneath; 
secds produced in catkins—see fig. 42, which shows a 
cluster of its catkins: B, before they 01 2n; A, when in 
