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siderably for the first few years after planting. While it can 
be grown in tree form, it is much better adapted to being grown 
in this section in the form of a windbreak. It bears pruning 
well, and makes a very pretty hedge, but is not adapted to turn- 
ing cattle, as it is unarmed. The fruit is insipid and generally 
small, but in almost every large lot of seedlings a few speci- 
mens will be found producing fruit of good size and fair 
quality. While the fruit is not marketable, it is often used 
domestically, and also furnishes a large amount of food for 
birds just when strawberries and raspberries are ripening, and 
is preferred by them to the more acid berries, hence affords 
some protection to these more important crops. Objections 
to its use in ornamental planting are its susceptibility to injury 
by late spring frosts, which blacken the new growth, and the 
early falling of the leaves in autumn. While its leaves are well 
adapted to feeding the silk worm, and have been successfully 
used for this purpose in this section in a small way, yet the 
industry has not become profitable. 
Varictics.—A variety known as Teas Weeping Mulberry has 
been partially tried at the Minnesota Experiment Station, and 
gives promise of proving sufficiently hardy for somewhat pro- 
tected places. This variety is vigorous, naturally sprawls on 
the ground, and when worked on straight stems, its very 
pendulous branches make it a very conspicuous object. Foli- 
age excellent. 
ROSACEAE. ROSE FAMILY. 
A large family of trees, shrubs and herbs, including many of 
our cultivated fruits and ornamental plants. 
Genus PYRUS. 
Leaves simple or pinnately compound, flowers white or 
rose colored, in corymbs, cymes or clusters, perfect, regular; 
stamens numerous; styles five (sometimes two or three); 
carpels of the same number, two-seeded. Seeds in cells that 
are made up of horny, parchment-like thin walls. Fruit a pome, 
