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Mr. Downing among the shrubs. It is in reality a large tree 
when grown, forty to fifty feet high, with pinnate leaves, and 
producing large branches of cream colored flowers in August. 
It is quite distinctive in winter, by the dark green bark of its 
young wood ; and in summer by the dark blue green of its 
foliage. Near Paris there are some trees sixty feet high. It 
grows rapidly and is peculiarly adapted to the United States 
from one remarkable property of its foliage, which is the power 
it has to retain both its leaves and their color in the very hot- 
test and driest seasons, when locusts and acacias and other 
pinnated-leaved leguminacece are apt to lose their foliage. 
The flowers, it is said, in China make yellow dye of so super- 
ior a color, that it is reserved exclusively for the use of the 
Imperial family. 
S. pendula (Pendulous or Weeping sophora), is more com- 
monly met with, perhaps, than the upright sophora, though 
even this variety is very rare. It has long pendulous shoots ; 
grafted near the ground it becomes a mere straggling plant, 
but ten to twenty feet high ; we hardly know anything more 
ornamental or striking ; even in winter, the long slender 
branches of beautiful bright green render it most attractive. 
There is a third variety, variegata , but the color of the leaf 
is sickly, and we do not consider it desirable, except for arbore- 
tums. 
Pyrus. Mountain Ash. 
A very pretty and marked addition to the varieties hereto- 
fore known, and described is Pyrus pendula (Weeping moun- 
tain ash), with extremely pendulous branches bending quite to 
the ground, and then rambling along it if not stopped ; a most 
rapid grower, more so, we think, than the common mountain 
ash, and a very great bloomer. 
P. nana (Dwarf mountain ash). — This is a very stunted 
variety of slow, close growth, but quite remarkable for the 
luxuriant corymbs of coral berries in the Autumn. 
P. quercifolia , a distinct variety with large, hoary, oak leaves ; 
P. striata (Striped-leaved), P. vestita (White-leaved), the 
young shoots and the under part of the leaves being as clearly 
