.THE EARLY SUMMER FLOWERS. I9I 
In this list of seventy, more than one fifth are trees 
and shrubs; one of them, the white pine, or as it is 
called in England, the Weymouth pine, is the tallest 
and most stately tree of our forests. It rises in a single 
straight column, tapering gradually, to a height of one 
hundred feet and more. It has a wide geographical 
range in North America, from the Saskatchewan river 
in 54° north latitude to the slopes of the Blue Ridge in 
Georgia, from Nova Scotia to the Pacific. It is found 
everywhere in New England, in every variety of soil. 
It is the most useful and indispensable of our trees, 
affording a timber of very great value for many pur- 
poses. Yet, as Wilson Flagg says, it has no legendary 
history, because it is an American tree. Ralph Waldo 
Emerson has sung its praises in his ‘‘Woodnotes.” It 
is associated with no classical images, like the oak, nor 
with sacred literature, like the cedar of Lebanon. It 
is easily distinguished by its leaves being in fives, 
and by its long cones composed of loosely arranged 
scales; it should be familiar to every resident of New 
England. 
In Viburnum dentatum we have the last of the 
viburnums, and in Cornus sericea, the last of the cornels, 
groups which have been more or less conspicuous dur- 
ing the past five or six weeks. Both the species of 
A pocynum,—there are only two species of this genus in 
North America north of Mexico,—are now in bloom. 
