House & 
Garden 
The blossoms of 
t his small-growing 
flowering crab, py- 
rus Scheideckeri, 
open early in May; 
are large, double, 
and tinged with pink 
Of all the sights of early spring none seem able 
somehow to equal in pure splendor that of the 
flowering trees, whose branches are crowded with 
blooms in pink and white, often sweetly scented 
Very few of the ornamental shrubs, even the 
heavy laden spireas and forsythias, compare with 
such a tree as this white clustered Mazzard cherry, 
prunus avium, whose blossoms precede its leaves 
Pears, too, are 
members of the 
polymorphous 
genus of pyrus. 
This one, snow 
pear, p. sinaica, 
has A pril blossoms 
of purest white 
Said to be a hy¬ 
brid of the com¬ 
mon pear and the 
white beam tree 
is this flowering 
pear, pyrus au- 
ricularis, blossom¬ 
ing white in May 
BLOSSOM 
by 
BLOSSOM 
THE SPRING 
BEGINS 
