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Closely allied to Crataegus is Sorbus Aucuparia, the 

 Mountain Ash or Rowan-tree, and when laden with 

 its broad flat clusters of small bright scarlet fruits has 

 no peer among ornamental fruited trees. There are 

 several varieties including a form with pendulous 

 branches and another with yellow fruits. Scattered 

 over the north temperate regions are several species 

 closely allied to the foregoing, and in this country 

 grows S. americana and its large fruited variety 

 decora, possibly the most beautiful of all. 



The Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida), appreci- 

 ated as one of the most beautiful of native trees of 

 small size, is also strikingly handsome in the fall when 

 laden with its scarlet teat-like fruits in close heads. 

 The Old World Cornus mas bears red cherry-like fruits, 

 hence its vernacular name, Cornelian Cherry. There 

 is a variety of this (xanthocarpa) with yellow fruit. 



The English Holly (Ilex Aquifolium) with its bright 

 red berries and shining green leaves and so celebrated 

 in poetry and folk-lore is not hardy around Boston, 

 Mass., but farther south it may be grown and there is 

 no more beautiful evergreen tree. Among its very 

 numerous varieties is one (fructu-luteo) with yellow 

 fruits. The native Holly (/. opaca) with dull green 

 leaves is a hardier but inferior tree from an ornamen- 

 tal viewpoint. The native Black Alder or Winter- 



