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resemblance to an ordinary Alder. It is light and airy, and 

 lather pretty, but sparse of foliage, and should be headed in to 

 make it appear to good advantage. 



AMELANOHIER— June-berry. 



We found nothing of special value, but I must speak of kinds 

 which have already found their Wciy into the West, probably from 

 Europe. A dwarf variety has been grown by a German in Greene, 

 Co. Iowa, for the past 1 2 years. Mr. Budd who visited the planta- 

 tion, says " that the plants were literally loaded with a dark, nearly 

 black fruit of good size and excellent quality ;" even the sprouts, 

 not more than a foot in height, were bearing. The bushes when 

 full grown were 2 to 3 feet in height, bore fruit the size of black 

 currants, and all this time had been grown and marketed under 

 the impression that they were Huckleberries. This variety was 

 imported from Germany. Another colonist, near Davenport, 

 Iowa, has had 4 acres of a somewhat similar berry, and has •^•5- 

 duced 50 to 60 bushels in a season from the bearing portion of 

 his plantation. This has been over 20 years on trial, and its 

 origin is not traceable. -. 



Again Mr. Budd draws my atteru'on to the Amelanchur alpi'na, 

 received from Texas, and which is a native of the Andes of 

 Mexico, and apparently quite hardy at Ames, Iowa. It grows a 

 foot or more in height, and has been highly thought of in Texas, 

 where it has been grown as a Huckleberry. 



Another variety received the prize of, I believe, $40 from the 

 Mass. Hort. Soc. 



I mention these because they are fruit that should be grown in 

 our climate. ' - , « , ,,, . , , • ,1 



ARIA— White Beam Tree. 



This is a medium-sized tree, allied to the Mountain Ash ; 

 somewhat like it in blossom, and in the fa.ct that it bears clusters 

 of fruit. 



