ON ORNAMENTAL TREES 



chances for hybridization, and is especially prom- 

 ising for timber; and the hawthorne, which has 

 attractive flowers and fruit that are subject to a 

 wide range of variation, and which has excep- 

 tional interest because of its not very remote rela- 

 tionship with the great tribe of trees that furnish 

 our chief orchard fruits. 



The names of the dogwood, the pepper tree, the 

 tree cranberry and numerous others might be 

 added, but regarding each of them substantially 

 the same thing might be said. All offer excellent 

 opportunities for selective breeding; but few or 

 none of them have been extensively worked with 

 hitherto. 



THE FINESI OF ORNAMENTAL TREES 



There is one peerless tree, however, that I must 

 single out for a few added words of special men- 

 tion in concluding this brief summary of the more 

 notable among the ornamental trees. 



This is the elm, a tree that occupies a place 

 apart, having scarcely a rival when we consider 

 the ensemble of qualities that go to make up an 

 ideal ornamental and shade tree. 



Whoever has visited an old New England 

 village, and has walked through the corridors of 

 elms or looked down the vista of streets arched 

 over by the interlocking branches of the rows of 

 trees on either side, will not be likely to challenge 



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