150 FOREST TREES. 
SHEPHERDIA. 
Natural Order, Hleagnacea. 
Flowers, dicecious, the sterile with a four-parted 
calyx, and eight stamens; the fertile with an urn- 
shaped, four-cleft calyx, enclosing the ovary, and 
becoming berry-like in fruit. 
Shepherdia argentea—Buffalo Berry. 
Leaves, oblong-ovate, smooth on both sides, and 
covered with silvery pellate scales. 
The Buffalo Berry is a native of the country on 
the Upper Missouri, and west of the Rocky Moun- 
tains. In cultivation, it becomes a tree twenty-five 
or thirty feet high. It is cultivated principally for 
its fruit, which is produced in abundance, and if not 
gathered, will remain on the branches through the 
winter. It resembles small, red currants, but is of 
richer taste, and literally covers the twigs and 
branches. It is esteemed for pies, tarts and pre- 
serves. ‘The tree is strictly dicecious, and in order to 
obtain fruit, both sexes must be grown not far from 
each other. Itis quite hardy in the northern part 
of the United States. In growth it resembles the 
Buckthorn, and would probably make as good a 
hedge. It is propagated by suckers or by seed, which 
should be washed from the berries and laid by until 
spring. 
SOPHORA. 
Natural Order, Leguminose. 
Calyx, five-toothed ; legume, necklace-shaped, many- 
seeded; leaf with more than three leaflets. 
