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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
We have planted a number of these trees in the 
grove in different positions. They are said to be 
short lived as most peaches are. Ours are now ten 
years old. The very finest and largest died sud- 
denly last summer but all the others are doing 
well. One of them suffered very much from leaf- 
curl when it was small and I was afraid it would 
contaminate the others but it did not as it was 
planted apart from the rest, and it has in great 
measure outgrown the disease, though still slightly 
affected by it. These peaches have to be watched 
for borers just like fruit peaches. I do not know 
whether they suffer from the yellows or not. Mine 
are quite healthy. 
Cherries bloom about the same time as the 
peaches, some varieties a little earlier and some 
later, and all are very ornamental when in flower. 
Old trees of such varieties as the Black Tartarian 
sometimes grow very large and look when out of 
flower more like forest than fruit trees. We have 
one of these old giants planted north of the house 
which it overtops. It is at least forty years old 
and is in full vigor, showing no appearance of 
decay. This tree blossoms in April and is a fine 
sight for several days covered with soft cloudy 
masses of bloom. 
Even earlier by a day or two is the beautiful 
Japanese Weeping Cherry. I know no weeping 
tree that is so graceful, so Japanesque, if I may 
coin a word, in effect as this tree. There is noth- 
ing tame in its symmetry as there is in the Weep- 
ing Willow, for instance, but it has an artistic 
irregularity of outline far more effective. Its limbs 
take on all sorts of odd contortions and pictur- 
esque loopings and queer upward quirks but all 
end in a downward sweep and are clothed in flow- 
ering time with rosy pink blossoms down to the 
tips. These flowers have narrower, more pointed 
petals than those of the fruit cherries. 
My specimen is about fifteen feet in height and 
its slender branches touch the ground on one side 
only. It is, when in bloom, like a fountain with 
pink spray. 
There are a great many kinds of flowering 
cherries. Another weeping Japanese variety has 
white flowers, and there is the dwarf weeping 
cherry which has to be grafted standard high and 
is pretty for small lawns. Then there are the wild 
cherries, sand cherries and bird cherries, all orna- 
mental and particularly desirable for copses and 
plantations where a natural effect is desired and 
the double-flowering ones might seem out of place. 
But near buildings and in parks and private 
grounds no trees are more ornamental than Sie- 
bold’s double-flowering cherries, which come in 
two varieties, the white and rose-tinted. These 
do not seem to make large trees. Mine seem to 
have stopped growing and are only ten feet in 
height but probably they do better elsewhere. The 
blossoms completely cover the branches and they 
bloom later than other cherries and remain longer 
in perfection. These are most effective in groups 
of several planted together and quite near a path 
or in some conspicuous position where their beauty 
will show to best advantage. 
Pears are not planted for ornament as much as 
they deserve to be. In habit of growth they are 
often very graceful, many of them having pendent 
branches which gives them a picturesque appear- 
ance. Old pear trees sometimes attain to large 
size and fine form. Both in flower and in fruit 
these trees are ornamental and they color richly in 
the fall retaining their foliage until late in the 
season. 
The same may be said of Medlar trees with their 
large white flowers and handsome foliage, yet how 
seldom they are seen in ornamental gardening. 
Pyrus salicifolia argentea is a beautiful little 
tree with narrow silvery leaves and clusters of white 
flowers with rose-colored stamens, I see that 
some nurserymen are beginning to offer some of 
the rarer flowering trees described in my last 
article which have hitherto been scarce and hard to 
procure. It is possible to obtain Prunus myro- 
balana flore roseo pleno, Amygdalus communis 
flore roseo pleno, which is a large double -flower- 
ing almond, also Amygdalus Davidiana in both 
pink and white varieties, at moderate prices. The 
taste for such things is growing and the free use of 
them makes parks and home grounds ideally beau- 
tiful. 
The Mountain Ash is a pretty little tree, orna- 
mental in foliage, fruit and flower. There are a 
great many varieties of this tree, those most com- 
monly planted, however, are the English Mountain 
Ash, Sorbus aucuparia, and the American, Sorbus 
Americana. 
Amelanchier Botryapium is a tree of many 
names, Serviceberry, Shadblow, Juneberry and 
Wild Pear being among the number. It is the 
beautiful little tree that whitens our woods and 
copses early in spring, some time before the dog- 
woods flower. It is said to grow thirty or forty 
feet in height, but I have not seen it so large as 
this. Here it is a tree of remarkably slow growth, 
of slender shape and pretty, delicate, narrow- 
petalled bloom. It is a graceful little tree and 
well suited to the wilder parts of parks and copses. 
I have by no means exhausted the great family 
of the Rosacese, but would defer the flowering 
apples and crabs to another time. 
Danske Dandridgc . 
