Trees, Shrubs and Vines 
of true arboreal size, a variety of it having full-double 
flowers, two inches across, and very fragrant. 
Passing from apples to cherries, there are several 
species, mostly foreign, that have very ornamental 
bloom. Few trees in the Park are more attractive when 
in blossom than the wild black cherry ; all frequenters 
of the ‘‘ Ramble ’’ must be familiar with the remarkable 
specimen in the northwest corner, near what is now 
the ‘‘ Reading-room.’’ Besides this species, we have 
the wild red cherry, and the bird cherry of Europe, the 
double-flowering Chinese cherry, and some from Japan ; 
and all are familiar with the flowering almond, of Asiatic 
origin, whose stems are buried in pink and white blos- 
soms in early spring. From the same source comes the 
double-flowering peach in various colors, varieties of the 
familiar peach-tree. Of ornamental plum-trees the most 
important is perhaps the Persian purple-leaved plum, P. 
pissardit, a \ow tree or shrub, decorative in foliage rather 
than in flower. And lastly, no lawn should be without 
the Japanese quince (Pyrus japonica), one of the fresh- 
est delights of spring, decking the still leafless bush with 
an abundance of large pink or sometimes white blossoms, 
the very emblem of spring’s fairest anticipations. After 
the flowering season is past—though it develops blos- 
soms at intervals all summer—the shrub is still attractive 
for its dark and almost glossy foliage. This brief list 
emphasizes the versatility of that pre-eminent botanical 
group, the rose family. 
Seldom does one find cultivated forms credited to 
Siberia; yet that inhospitable land gives to the Park five 
delicate leguminose species of the Siberian pea-tree— 
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