FLOWERING TREES 231 



The flowering fruit trees do not at all exhaust the 

 treasures to be had, and one of the loveliest of these 

 others and earliest to bloom of any of our flowering 

 trees is the Shadbush, a lovely will-o'-the-wisp of a tree 

 appearing like puffs of mist among the wet green trunks 

 of woodland trees as ethereal and fleeting. This 

 lovely wild thing with its harsh-sounding name, Amelan- 

 chier canadensis, enjoys the shelter of the garden walls 

 where rough winds may not tear its fragile flowers and 

 where its roots may go deep into the rich soil of the 

 borders. It is a graceful, lightly made tree though 

 sometimes reaching a height of thirty feet, but it blooms 

 when quite small, and the peculiar wraithlike quality of 

 its flowering makes it especially welcome in the spring 

 garden. 



Both the native Dogwood and Judas trees, which 

 blooming in unison in Maryland and Virginia create of 

 the April woods a fairy world, are both entirely worthy 

 a place within the garden. The spreading Dogwood is 

 too well known to need description. The white and 

 the rarer pink variety are to be found in most good 

 gardens, and it is not only in spring that it is valuable, 

 but in its rich autumn dress as well. 



The tiny lavender-pink blossoms of the Judas tree or 

 Redbud, Cercis canadensis, appear before the leaves and 

 are set so closely upon the naked branches that little 

 bunches and knots of them are crowded off upon the 

 trunk of the tree, looking like extra rosettes pinned on 



