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DECIDUOUS TREES, 



Chiefly planted for Shade and Shelter. 



HE deciduous trees brought together under 

 this heading are chiefly trees of considerable 

 size, with broad, umbrageous crowns. Some 

 are excellent street trees, such as the larger 

 maples, box elder, lindens, and elms, and they are also 

 used for larger plantations in pleasure-grounds and parks, 

 or as shade-trees in smaller places. They include the most 

 useful of ornamental trees, but the larger species, when 

 planted in small grounds, must be used with discretion, so 

 as not to crowd out the dwarf er and choicer vegetation. 

 Most of them have elliptical crowns or present a rounded 

 or obovate outline. They are destitute of conspicuous 

 flowers, with the possible exception of the lindens, which 

 have large quantities of fragrant, yellowish blossoms in 

 July, and the chestnut, which is white with flowers in 

 June. Still they are essentially grown for the sake of 

 shade and shelter. Many of them assume the most beauti- 

 ful autumn tints, such as the scarlet oak, the red maple, 



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