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DECIDUOUS TREES. 
as the horse-chestnut, and holds its leaves and color late. In 
bloom and fruit it closely resembles the preceding varieties of the 
mountain ash, but in the color of its foliage, and the breaks of 
light and shadow on its surface, it is a much finer tree. Height 
and breadth from twenty to thirty feet. There is a weeping variety 
of this species, which we have not seen, but which is reputed to be 
interesting; also a large-leaved variety. 
The Dwarf-profuse-flowering Mountain Ash, P. nana 
floribunda , is a variety of the oak-leaved mountain ash, but the 
leaves have returned to the primal form of the species, being com¬ 
pound, quite delicate, and acacia-like. It is grafted on other 
stocks from four to six feet high. The blossoms, in small and 
abundant white clusters, appear in May. In blossom, foliage, and 
bright-red fruit, it is equally pretty. 
There are many other varieties named in nursery catalogues, 
but the above are the most noteworthy. 
Fig. 141. 
THE DOGWOOD. Cornus. 
The dogwood family are numerous, and vary widely from each 
other in their characteristics. They form low suckering shrubs and 
whip-plants on the borders of streams and in wet ground, and in 
other places low trees, most of which are indigenous from Canada 
to the Gulf of Mexico. The most common, and the most showy 
in blossom, if not in leaf, is the following : 
