ON ORNAMENTAL TREES 
chances for hybridization, and is especially prom- 
ising for timber; and the hawthorne, which has 
attractive flowers and fruit that are subject to a 
wide range of variation, and which has excep- 
tional interest because of its not very remote rela- 
tionship with the great tribe of trees that furnish 
our chief orchard fruits. 
The names of the dogwood, the pepper tree, the 
tree cranberry and numerous others might be 
added, but regarding each of them substantially 
the same thing might be said. All offer excellent 
opportunities for selective breeding; but few or 
none of them have been extensively worked with 
hitherto. 
THE FINEST OF ORNAMENTAL TREES 
There is one peerless tree, however, that I must 
single out for a few added words of special men- 
tion in concluding this brief summary of the more 
notable among the ornamental trees. 
This is the elm, a tree that occupies a place 
apart, having scarcely a rival when we consider 
the ensemble of qualities that go to make up an 
ideal ornamental and shade tree. 
Whoever has visited an old New England 
village, and has walked through the corridors of 
elms or looked down the vista of streets arched 
over by the interlocking branches of the rows of 
trees on either side, will not be likely to challenge 
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