6 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ORNAMEMTAL TREES AND SHRUBS HARDY IN 

 MINNESOTA. 



Prepared by the Ornamental List Committee, Frank H. Nutter 

 and Lycurgus R. Moyer. 



In submitting this list, with the very limited time at their dispo- 

 sal your committee wish to say that it is intended to be partial and 

 preliminary only, hoping- before the next annual meeting to be able 

 to prepare one that may be more elaborate and so arranged as to 

 give fuller information as to local adaptations. 



They would also suggest that too often in a sudden zeal for im- 

 provements the planter of ornamental trees and shrubs does his 

 work carelesslj' and in haste and soon forgets to care for them, over- 

 looking the fact that in this branch of horticulture, as truly as in the 

 orchard and garden, intelligent cultivation is necessary to secure 

 satisfactory results. 



In selecting from this list, the planter should use judgment to 

 choose such varieties as inay be especially adapted to the soil and 

 climatic peculiarities of the locality in which they are to be used, 

 and also of such size when mature and such habits of growth as to 

 be appropriate to their surroundings. 



Your committee would also urge all those interested in such mat- 

 ters to carefully observe such trees and shrubs as may grow wild 

 in their neighborhoods, hoping thereby to secure new and novel 

 varieties which may be of value for ornamental planting. 



In the printing of this list, varieties which are native to the wood- 

 lands of this state are marked with a star *, while those which by 

 successful cultivation at Montevideo, Minn., have proved themselves 

 adapted to withstand the severe climatic conditions of the prairie 

 regions, are printed in italics. A few foot notes are also added for 

 further explanation. 



DECIDUOUS TREES. 



*Burr Oak, (Quercus macrocarpa); ^Scarlet Oak, (Q. coccinea); 

 "^Greea Ash, (Fraxinus vividis); *Liuden, (Tilia Americana); *Rock, 

 or Slippery, Elm, (Ulmus fulva}; *White Elm, (Ulmus Americana); 

 ^Kentucky Coffee Tree, (Gymnocladus Canadensis); 1 Siberian Pea 

 Tree, (Caragana arborescens); European Mountain Ash, (Pyrus au- 

 cuparia); *Elder-leafed Mountain Ash, (P. sambucifolia); *White, or 

 Silver, Maple, (Acer saccharinum); 2 *Thorn Tree, (Crataegus crus- 

 galli); 3 Willows, (Salix). 



CONIFERS. 



* White spruce, {'^icea alba); Norway Spruce, (P. excelsa); Colo- 

 rado Blue Spruce, (P. pungens); Douglas Spruce, (Pseudotsuga 

 taxifolia); Scotch Pine, (Pinus sylvestris), Dwarf, or Mu^ho, Pine, 

 (P. Montana); *Red Cedar, (Juniperus Virginiana); 4:*Savin Juniper, 

 (J. sabina). 



WEEPING DECIDUOUS TREES. 



Wier's Cut-leafed Maple,Weeping Cut-leafed Birch, Weeping Moun- 

 tain Ash (grafted), Wisconsin Weeping Willow. 



