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PLATE VI. WEEPING MULBERRY TREES 
fern variety. It pales yellow at the approach ol 
cold weather. It grows a soft, unperfected, pulpy 
fruit in this part of the United States that makes it 
objectionable as it drops and leaves a purple stain, 
so that they are only desirable planted away from 
walks and driveways. It is a native of Japan, where 
its fruit is much prized. 
Most people know the beauties of the sassafras 
tree. It has a dark, rich green color in summer, 
than which no green is lovelier, not even the green 
of the oak, and its vivid autumnal change of leaf 
color is only rivaled by the beauty of its seed that 
look like rare alexandrites of red and green upheld 
in long stemmed enameled chalices of red and green 
and blue, so that beautiful in its light green spring 
and dark green summer leafage it also joins the 
group of trees remarkable for brilliant colored 
autumnal fruit. No. 7 is a dwarf Catalpa Bungei. 
It has broad, shadowy foliage and retains its green 
color late in the season. Unfortunately it is too tender 
to stand the severe winter of New Jersey’s latitude 
unprotected and the brittleness of the wood is a 
serious drawback to its general usefulness. No. 8 
includes a mass of Berbens Thunbergn. This shrub 
becomes a veritable dwarf Mephisto in its brilliant 
scarlet autumn dress and later, when the leaves fall, 
and during the winter its red berries hang on 
its bare, brown branches like clusters of coral, and 
are especially conspicuous and attractive when the 
snow is on the ground. Rosa rugosa, No. 9, a hardy 
flowering plant, does well in almost any situation. 
It has crinkled, dark green leaves, is very ornamen¬ 
tal and has showy red fruit or haws in the fall. In 
this group of shrubs and trees Nos. 9 and 13 are 
two varieties of Japanese Rosa rugosa, one having 
red and the other white flowers that bloom from 
May to October. No. 10 contains shrubs not yet 
very widely known or cultivated in this country, 
called Desmodium pendulvfiorum. This variety has 
rosy, purple or violet shaded flowers in great abun¬ 
dance in September and early October. 
Another variety, D. Japomcum, has white blos¬ 
soms and is of a more dwarf habit than the 
first named, flowering also about the same 
time as it. In Nos. n and 15 is a group of 
sassafras, hawthorn and dogwood trees. The 
thorns, together with Nos. 12 and 16, are of two 
varieties, pink and white. The rich colors of the 
hawthorn blossoms coming as they do in the spring, 
make it one of the choicest trees to plant with this 
object in view and the month of May sees it in all 
its perfection. It is to be regretted, however, that 
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