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LAWK AKD SHADE TREES. 
twenty feet high, its profusion of pure white flowers in early 
spring have drawn attention of ornamental planters to it, until 
it is now sought for and planted by every landscapist of any 
taste. As a small tree to skirt the boundaries of evergreen 
groups, peeping out from among them with its snowy flowers 
in spring, and its brilliant red berries and dark red foliage in 
autumn, we have few equal to it. 
There is a variegated-leaved variety also, with its leaves 
blotched with white, that when the plant is to stand with other 
deciduous trees is better because of the greater attraction 
created by its foliage; and there is also one, the sanguinea , 
with its young shoots of a bright scarlet color, that is extremely 
ornamental, whether planted by itself or against a relief of 
evergreens. The European dogwood ( mascula ) has small 
yellow flowers of no great beauty, but in the autumn its oval 
scarlet berries are very ornamental, and hang a long time on the 
tree. 
Elm — Ulmus. — From the abundance of elms, everywhere native, 
over our country, and the almost perfect certainty of their living 
and growing freely when transjDlanted with ordinary care, it has 
become one of our most popular street and park trees. Grace- 
fully elegant by reason of its long sweeping branches, and its 
loose pendant yet tufted masses of foliage, vigorous and almost 
lofty in its growdh, and adapting itself as it were to all soils, w r et 
or dry, clay or sand, the American white elm has no superior as 
a street or park tree, where it can be planted so as to give it 
room for development ; but when planted, as it too often is, in 
small grounds, or on the sides of narrow streets or avenues 
where its limbs have to be lopped off or trimmed up, it is 
unsuited, because in so doing its beauty is destroyed, and the 
owner has only a long bare trunk where he might have had, 
with some other variety, a mass of foliage and beauty. 
The red elm ( fulva ) is more upright in its growth than the 
