TREES 
117 
scarlet berries gleaming among its green in 
late summer and autumn; the shadbush or ser- 
vice berry — Amelanchier Canadensis also 
Amelanchier obovnlis — the former sometimes 
reaching fifty feet, the latter stopping at 
twenty-five or thirty; the cock-spur thorn — 
Crataegus Crus-galli — twenty-five feet tall, and 
carrying dull red fruits all winter; and the 
fringe tree — Chionanthus Virginica — twenty 
to thirty feet high and branching low on its 
trunk, yet nevertheless a tree and not a shrub. 
Then there are the two small maples — Acer 
spicatum and Acer Pennsylvanicum — the 
mountain maple and the moosewood or 
striped maple, the first rather bushy and about 
thirty feet in height, the second short of trunk 
but less bushy and forty feet high; all these 
at least are available and are very generally 
carried by first class nurseries now. And 
finally, at the end of the list so that it may 
never be overlooked or forgotten, our peerless 
dogwood, the tree that is unrivaled by any 
other flowering tree in the world — Cornus 
jlorida. 
With this array does it not truly seem that 
there is very little reason or excuse for going 
beyond our own boundaries for small trees 
with which to furnish our most diminutive gar- 
