450 DECIDUOUS TREES. 



The Flowery Amelanchier. A.florida. — An upright shrub 

 or tree from ten to twenty feet in height. Flowers white, larger 

 and later than the preceding. May. 



THE TAMARISK. Tamarix. 



These are straggling, upright, sub-evergreen shrubs, resembling 

 asparagus plants in foliage, and grow in stools ; that is to say, they 

 send up many sprouts from the intersection of the trunk and root. 



The French tamarisk, T. gallica, the German, T. germanica, and 

 the African, T. africana, are all growing well in the New York 

 Central Park, though killed back occasionally in part. Loudon 

 speaks of them as well adapted to thrive under sea-breezes, and 

 that they require to be planted in close proximity to water, and in 

 a deep free soil. The exceeding delicacy of their foliage attracts 

 attention among larger-leaved shrubs, but they are of too careless 

 and unsymmetrical growth to be used except to break the monot- 

 ony of commoner forms. The flowers are in large loose spikes, of 

 a delicate pink color, and, though small separately, are showy ; and 

 the bloom continues most of the season. Height and breadth ten 

 to twenty feet. In the Central Park the French variety makes the 

 best appearance. We have seen a few fine specimens growing in 

 tree form in city yards, and their great singularity of foliage renders 

 them very attractive when they can be grown in this way. 



THE WYCH HAZEL. Hamamelis. 



This tree is rarely seen in cultivated grounds. It has some- 

 thing of the style of foliage of a beech, though the leaves are quite 

 different in form, being obovate, larger, and broader, with wavy 

 edges and darker color. The tree has the curious trait of blossom- 

 ing profusely just before the falling of its leaves, and the flowers 

 continue on the tree through the winter. They are of a rich yellow 

 color, and very showy in the mass. We have not seen the Wych 

 hazel developed in open ground, but from specimens growing by 



