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P. ELEAGNiFOLiA. — A bright foliaged tree, nearly as white as 

 salicifolia, loaf broader and growth, more upright and regular. I 

 do not know that it is a tree of northern habilat, still it is hardy 

 at Proscau, We also saw a good specimen of it 8 or i o in, in 

 diameter of trunk at Warsaw. , 



P. SALICIFOLIA. — The most ornamental of the Pyrus ; an irre- 

 gular, eccentric growth, somewhat pendulous, and with branches 

 intertwisted in all sorts of ways. The leaf is very narrow, and as 

 white as the regalis willow ; a strikingly beautiful tree. It is a 

 native of the Ural Mountains, and therefore should prove hardy. 



P. UssuRiENSis.— The wild pear of the Ussuri in Mantchuria. 

 I am not sure that I saw it. The tree is said to be quite ornamen- 

 tal, the fruit of fair size, but it does not soften even when cooked. 



The wild pear of the Volga and of middle Russia, I must 

 mention as the best tree I know of for a cold climate, for main- 

 taining a dark, glossy leaf during extreme drouth. 



f the apple 



QUEROUS-Oak. 



Tender and unsatisfactory as are some of the English oaks, 

 the pedtmculata in Russia grows in climates quite as severe as the 

 native oaks of this Province. The foresters tell me thatpedulun- 

 culata is indigenous in the Government of Moscow, also, I am 

 told, in the Government of Kazan. From this latitude southward 

 wherever the soil is suitable, this oak has been planted in vast 

 quantity by the Government Forestry stations. Our red oak is a 

 good, fast grower, but the wood is inferior. Our white oak is the 

 very best of wood, but, I was going to say, it grows, but watch a 

 white oak for a few years, and if you believe your eyes you will 

 declare it does not. This Russian pedunculata combines good 

 growth with a good quality of wood. 



I find the Q. r. fastigtata, the upright oak, hardy as far 

 north as Riga. Q. Mongolica, a variety with a very small indent- 

 ed leaf, is recommended to us for trial in our cold climate. 



