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Varieties —There are several varieties, varying in habit of 
growth and color of fruit. The following are the ones most 
commonly planted: 
Pyrus aucuparia pendula. Weeping Mountain Ash. 
A form with pendulous, graceful habit. It 
grows freely, is hardy and is interesting for 
variety. It is largely used as a lawn curiosity. 
Propagated by grafting onto the American or 
European Mountain Ash. 
Pyrus hybrida. Oakleaf Mountain 
Ash. 
Leaves five to six inches long, lyrate pin- 
natifid, often pinnate at the base, irregularly 
and sharply serrate, dark green and glabrous 
above, pale and densely pubescent beneath. 
Flowers white, in large conspicuous clusters. 
Propagated by grafting onto the European or 
American species. This Mountain Ash forms 
a very pretty lawn or park tree of upright i 
pyramidal habit, attaining a height of twenty 
or thirty feet. In hardiness it ranks with the 
European Mountain Ash. It is said to be a Et has sia hae es 
hybrid between Pyrus aria (Sweet Beam Ash, one-third nat- 
Tree) and Pyrus aucuparia. ural size: 
Genus AMELANCHIER. 
A small genus of trees and shrubs with alternate simple 
leaves, racemose white flowers and edible fruit. 
Amelanchier canadensis. Serviceberry. Juneberry. 
Servicetree. 
Leaves ovate or oval, pointed, finely serrate, reddish brown, 
with scattered white hairs when young, becoming dark green 
above and paler beneath at maturity; stipules early decidu- 
ous. Flowers appear after the leaves in spreading or drooping 
racemes; petals thin, pure white, about one-half inch long; 
calyx much shorter than petals. Fruit one-fourth to one-half 
inch in diameter; ripens in early summer, dark purple when 
