FLOWER GARDEN

This is a name sometimes given to ornamental flowering cherries. The botanical name of the tree is Prunus padus. A native of Britain as well as of Manchuria, it is a hardy, May-flowering tree, often attaining a height of forty to fifty feet. The flowers take the form of pendulous racemes six inches in length, and are white or pink. The bird cherry thrives in ordinary loam, and is best grown as a specimen tree on a lawn, or grouped in park or woodland. It is rather too vigorous a subject for the ordinary garden.