. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. DECIDUOUS TREES. 443 '%:^ commonly known as wild-thorn apple trees. The leaves are irreg- ularly heart-shaped, more or less lobed, and acutely serrated. The flowers are white, except in a few varieties, the fruit is larger than that of the hawthorn or cockspur species, and the growth is more free and vigorous. The fruit has a most agreeable perfume and flavor, but differs in quality and size on different trees almost as much as cul- tivated apples ; and in autumn is orna- mental by reason of its b
. The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extent. Landscape gardening; Trees. DECIDUOUS TREES. 443 '%:^ commonly known as wild-thorn apple trees. The leaves are irreg- ularly heart-shaped, more or less lobed, and acutely serrated. The flowers are white, except in a few varieties, the fruit is larger than that of the hawthorn or cockspur species, and the growth is more free and vigorous. The fruit has a most agreeable perfume and flavor, but differs in quality and size on different trees almost as much as cul- tivated apples ; and in autumn is orna- mental by reason of its bright red color. Though the trees have the same char- acteristic of low breadth as the other species, they have a less artificial or gardenesque kind of beauty than the cockspur thorns, and the foliage masses in larger divisions of light and shade. Fig. 144, page 438, shows a fine specimen of this family, drawn from nature on Mount Desert Island, Maine, which is about fifteen feet high and twenty-five feet in breadth. Fig. 150 represents another and larger form that some varieties assume at the west. There are hundreds of varieties of this species. The following are believed to be the most interesting: The Double-scarlet Thorn. C. coccmea fore plena.—This is a new variety, and said to excel all the others in beauty. Its flow- ers are unusually large, of a deep crimson color, with a scarlet shade, and very double. Foliage luxuriant and glossy. The Dotted-fruited Thorn, C. c. punctata aitrca, has yellow fruit, and grows to greater size than many other varieties. The Tansy-leaved Thorn. C. tena- P^^ cetifoUa celsiana.—A vigorous growing tree .^^^^^^^ of fastigiate habit, and unusual size and ^^^^l^^^^ beauty of foliage and fruit. Fig. 151 shows the leaf. The fruit is yellow. ^^^ WU 'I The Fiery Thorn or Burning Bush. Cratccgus pyracantha. —An evergreen or sub-evergreen shrub, of dense growth, with very. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images tha
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