THE NOETH DAKOTA FAEMSTEAD 



with evergreen trees or as a single specimen planted alone on the lawn. 

 Besides its white bark it is ornamentally valuable because of its 

 flowers in spring and its golden yellow leaves in autumn. It is a rapid 

 growing, short-lived tree and supplies wood of little value except 

 for fuel. 



Figure 6 Cut Leaved Weeping Birch (Betula alba var. pendula lacinata} on 

 Agricultural College Campus. Also note effects secured with shrubbery 



AMERICAN WHITE BIRCH (B. populifolia). This birch will grow 

 well on poor, dry, gravelly soils, but since it develops into a poor 

 tree it is not desirable. 



