flowering cherry one-quarter size. They flower in May in the North, and are especially beautiful. The flowers are so numerous as to conceal the branches, and present to the eye nothing but a mass of bloom, each flower resembling a miniature rose. The drooping varieties of the ornamental cherries are especially adapted to beautifying small o-rounds. As single specimens on the lawn they are unique and handsome, and require only to be better known in order to be extensively planted. See next page. The Double-Flowering Thorn. (Crataegus). — There arc no trees or shrubs 470 TWENTIETH CENTURY HOME COOK BOOK. more attractive than the flowering thorns. They are small trees, attractive in shape and fohage, where they have room, and by judicious pruning can be brought into small limits. They flower in May and June. The foliage is varied and attractive, flowers very showy and often highly perfumed. The fruit is ornamental. There are numerous varieties, all of which are hardv and will thrive in any dry soil. DOUBLE FLuWERIXG CHEllEY— QUABTEli SIZE. A Handsome Crab-apple. (Pyrus). — Few know the beauty of the ornamental crabs. These trees will bear investigation. We illustrate one of the best, with its double, rose-colored and fragrant blossoms, of which the size is shown in the cut. It is the best ornamental crab known. See page 532. The Catalpa. — The catalpa has a value as a timber tree. The wood is one of the most lasting known, but it is, in all its varieties, an ornamental tree also, with its magnificently large leaves ; and it is, probably, as valuable as the sun-flower in arresting miasma. One species, catalpa speciosa, a western forest tree, hardy up to forty-two GARDEN FLOWEliS AND SHRUBS. 4:71 degrees North, standing the hard winters there, and to our mind a much finer FLOWERS OF DOUBLE FL(JWEKING THOIIN— NATURAL SIZE. tree, in every respect, than the southern species, catalpa bignonioides ; the northern, FLOWERS OF OATALPA SPECIOSA-QUARTER-SIZE. the speciosa, being an upright tree and the other of a straggHng form. Its blossoms 472 TWENTIETH CENTURY HOME COOK BOOK. also opon from two to three weeks earlier than bignonioides. There arc a numljer of ornamental varieties, among them golden catalpa, a medium-sized tree with heart- shaped leaves, golden in spring but turning green later; catalpa Bungei, from China, a dwarf with large glossy foliage; Japan catalpa, of medium-size, deep green glossy foliage. Flowers fragrant, cream colored, speckled Avith purple and yelloow; seed pods long and very narrow; flowers about four weeks later than catalpa speciosa. y^'^' CHINESE DOUBLE-FLOWERING CRAB— NATURAL SIZE. The Persimmon. — (Diospyros). — The persimmon is not without beauty, as a small shade tree on the lawn, and the children will not forget it, when its ripe fruits, mellowed by the frost, are lying in the grass. It was a great favorite with the late venerable Arthur Bryant, who loved all that belonged to the forest and grove, as well as his brother, the poet. When horticultural friends visited him, as many did, the handsome persimmon trees on his lawn were admired by these " children of older growth," especially in the later autumn. The tree has a wide range fi'om the great lakes to the gulf, and some varieties in every situation bear excellent fruit. The Japanese persimmon bears superior fruit, but is not hardy North. GAEDEN FLOWERS AND SHRUBS. iU X. Everlasting Flowers and Ornamental Grasses.

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flowering cherry one-quarter size. They flower in May in the North, and are especially beautiful. The flowers are so numerous as to conceal the branches, and present to the eye nothing but a mass of bloom, each flower resembling a miniature rose. The drooping varieties of the ornamental cherries are especially adapted to beautifying small o-rounds. As single specimens on the lawn they are unique and handsome, and require only to be better known in order to be extensively planted. See next page. The Double-Flowering Thorn. (Crataegus). — There are no trees or shrubs more attractive than the flowering thorns. They are small trees, attractive in shape and fohage, where they have room, and by judicious pruning can be brought into small limits. They flower in May and June. The foliage is varied and attractive, flowers very showy and often highly perfumed. The fruit is ornamental. There are numerous varieties, all of which are hardy and will thrive in any dry soil. DOUBLE FLOWERING CHERRY— QUARTER SIZE. A Handsome Crab-apple. (Pyrus). — Few know the beauty of the ornamental crabs. These trees will bear investigation. We illustrate one of the best, with its double, rose-colored and fragrant blossoms, of which the size is shown in the cut. It is the best ornamental crab known. See page 532. The Catalpa. — The catalpa has a value as a timber tree. The wood is one of the most lasting known, but it is, in all its varieties, an ornamental tree also, with its magnificently large leaves ; and it is, probably, as valuable as the sun-flower in arresting miasma. One species, catalpa speciosa, a western forest tree, hardy up to forty-two degrees North, standing the hard winters there, and to our mind a much finer FLOWERS OF DOUBLE FL(JWEKING THOIIN— NATURAL SIZE. tree, in every respect, than the southern species, catalpa bignonioides ; the northern, FLOWERS OF OATALPA SPECIOSA-QUARTER-SIZE. the speciosa, being an upright tree and the other of a straggling form. Its blossoms also opon from two to three weeks earlier than bignonioides. There are a number of ornamental varieties, among them golden catalpa, a medium-sized tree with heart-shaped leaves, golden in spring but turning green later; catalpa Bungei, from China, a dwarf with large glossy foliage; Japan catalpa, of medium-size, deep green glossy foliage. Flowers fragrant, cream colored, speckled with purple and yellow; seed pods long and very narrow; flowers about four weeks later than catalpa speciosa. y^'^' CHINESE DOUBLE-FLOWERING CRAB— NATURAL SIZE. The Persimmon. — (Diospyros). — The persimmon is not without beauty, as a small shade tree on the lawn, and the children will not forget it, when its ripe fruits, mellowed by the frost, are lying in the grass. It was a great favorite with the late venerable Arthur Bryant, who loved all that belonged to the forest and grove, as well as his brother, the poet. When horticultural friends visited him, as many did, the handsome persimmon trees on his lawn were admired by these "children of older growth," especially in the later autumn. The tree has a wide range from the great lakes to the gulf, and some varieties in every situation bear excellent fruit. The Japanese persimmon bears superior fruit, but is not hardy North. iU X. Everlasting Flowers and Ornamental Grasses.

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