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Virginiana is desirable for parks or private grounds. The tree 

 grows rapidly, and while its slender branches droop, its form is 

 upright, spreading, and when in good soil attaining a large size. 

 Like the birch graceful and pliant, swaying to every breeze its 

 glossy foliage in the summer season, and its delicate, long, 

 slender, purplish red spray in the winter, makes the Bird Cherry 

 a very desirable tree for many situations. As a street tree it is 

 unsuitable, and for small grounds it grows too large. Birds 

 seem attracted to it, and nest in it perhaps more than in any 

 other tree. 



Perfumed or Mahakb Cherry. — This variety makes a small, 

 round-headed tree of fifteen to twenty feet in height, and the 

 same in breadth. It is of great beauty and value as an orna- 

 mental tree. It has a strong, yet agreeable perfume when in 

 flower, and bears an abundance of fruit. This fruit has its seeds 

 and can be made profitable, as it is a variety upon which our 

 large sweet cherries are worked as dwarfs, and the roots or 

 plants of one year old are always in demand. Its abundant 

 spray, pale green beads, which it holds until very late in 

 autumn, makes for it a strong claim as a foreground trees 

 whethej evergreen or deciduous. 



Double Flowering Cherry is a variety of the Heart Cherries, has 

 a vigorous growth, and, in season, a profusion of double white 

 flowers like miniature roses. It is a valuable tree for roadsides 

 in the country, parks, or extensive private grounds. 



DecidaovLS Cypress. — Taxodium Distichia. — Although a native 

 of our Southern States, the Deciduous Cypress proves hardy in 

 our Middle States and also a great portion of our Rorthem 

 States. In foliage it is different from all other trees, with a 

 resemblance to the Hemlock ; it has a light, bright green, com- 

 bined with an airy lightness of great elegance, pleasing and 

 attractive to all. In low, wet grounds, as in its native habitat, 

 it grows to a large tree, but planted in our common garden soils, 

 it forms a tree of only medium height, suy twenty to thirty feet 

 As it pushes its roots deep into the ground, it is always best to 

 transplant young trees. Grouped with hemlocks and firs, its 



