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to assume the bush form, but is a tree in every sense of the 

 term, always with a single stem, and never sends up suckers 

 from the roots. It will be prized most, perhaps, as a specimen 

 tree on the lawn, though other uses may be found for it. I 

 had the peculiar pleasure of raising the first seedlings of this 

 superb tree grown in a commercial place, and of introducing 

 it to use, and feel much pride in its steady increase of popu- 

 larity. 



Another species of the same beautiful family is the new 

 weeping Chinese lilac {Syringa ligustrina Pekinensis pendula), 

 a weeping form of a species from the mountains of Pekin. 

 This sort has a habit as pendulous as that of the Kilmarnock 

 willow, with white blossoms with the odor of honey. It is 

 one of the most interesting of the class of weeping trees now 

 so popular. 



Syringa villosa is another species of dwarf habit with foliage 

 like that of Syringa Emodi, but more showy in flower. It is 

 probably a geographical variety of that species. It is a very 

 charming shrub, with its low round form, large leaves and 

 large bright rose-colored spikes of bloom. 



Syringa oblata is a species closely allied to the common 

 lilac, but with very broad heart-shaped, thick and dark foliage 

 of most striking appearance. It has the further value of not 

 mildewing. It is greatly admired. It will be used by land- 

 scape gardeners for massing whenever plentiful enough, as 

 the bad habit of turning white with mildew the last half of 

 the season spoils our common lilac for use as a shrub for large 

 massing in parks or otherwise. 



Pyrus Malus Parkmanni (or Halleana), the finest of all the 

 charming double flowering Japanese crab-apples, is a small 

 tree producing foliage much like a laurel or kalmia, and 

 blossom buds almost exactly like those of carmine-colored tea 

 roses and which expand into semi-double rosy carmine flowers. 

 There is no flowering tree in cultivation in our latitude so ex- 

 quisitely beautiful during its period of bloom as- this hardy 

 and easily grown "tea-rose crab." 



Other new trees of first-class merits as ornaments, are 

 Acer sacharrinum columnare, a sugar maple, with the habit 

 of a Lombardy poplar ; Ginko biloba fastigiata, with similar 

 habit; Acer sacharrinum, "Autumn Leaves," a form of the 

 sugar maple, which has foliage all summer of solid yellow, 



