The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . ^-^- S^i^-Sf?^ fl^^f^^^i^-ti^^. ^s commonly known as wikl-thorn apple trees,ularly heart-shaped, more or less lobed,The flowers are white, except in a fewvarieties, the fruit is larger than that ofthe hawthorn or cockspur species, andthe growth is more free and fruit has a most agreeable perfumeand flavor, but differs in quality and sizeon different trees almost as much as cul-tivated apples ; and in autumn is orna-mental by reason
The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . ^-^- S^i^-Sf?^ fl^^f^^^i^-ti^^. ^s commonly known as wikl-thorn apple trees,ularly heart-shaped, more or less lobed,The flowers are white, except in a fewvarieties, the fruit is larger than that ofthe hawthorn or cockspur species, andthe growth is more free and fruit has a most agreeable perfumeand flavor, but differs in quality and sizeon different trees almost as much as cul-tivated apples ; and in autumn is orna-mental by reason of its bright red the trees have the same char-acteristic of low breadth as the otherspecies, they .have a less artificial orgardenesque kind of beauty than thecockspur thorns, and the foliage massesin larger divisions of light and 144, page 438, shows a fine specimen of this family, drawnfrom nature on Mount Desert Island, Maine, which is about fifteenfeet high and twenty-five feet in breadth. Fig. 150 representsanother and larger form that some varieties assume at the are hundreds of varieties of this species. The following arebelieved to
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