STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Ill 



•gant, fall color magnificent, hardy, and one of the best of street 

 trees because pyramidal, in every way an excellent ornamental tree, 

 and one much sought for. In my mind they have no superiors, and 

 are clean and handsome. The red and white are also good street 

 trees, of rapid growth, and fine, symmetrical form, and their autumn 

 hues are unequalled. In speaking of maples, a writer in one of our 

 journals says that there is a little poetry in ''all the colors of the 

 rainbow" as applied to Scottish foliage, even in the zenith of its 

 autumn brilliancy ; but here, as every observer knows, especially in 

 the mountainous districts, where sugar maples abound, the expres- 

 sion needs no poetic license. Almost all these colors may be found 

 in this single species, to say nothing of the birches, elms, ashes and 

 oaks, with their less varied tints. European travelers tell us that it 

 is worth a voyage across the Atlantic to behold the splendors of the 

 ripening foliage of our forests. The linden has been used, but I do 

 not recommend it, it being one of the latest in producing the foliage 

 in springtime, and one of the earliest to shed it in the autumn. It, 

 however, may be used in some places, being easily transplanted, and 

 will grow in any soil. 



But why not plant the oak occasionally for a street tree ? It is 

 true I have not seen a street lined with oaks, but on the outskirts of 

 our forests, and in our cemetery, they do well. The white oak is 

 the noblest of forest trees ; the scarlet oak, tall, with rich autumnal 

 tints ; the pin oak, tall, symmetrical, a pyramidal tree of rapid 

 growth and glossy foliage. I am told that at Flushing, L. I., there 

 is an avenue planted of this tree, and that it is remarkably adapted 

 for street tree, and for ornamental planting there is an innumerable 

 variety all worthy of a place if you have the room for them. Down- 

 ing says that there are no grander and more superb trees than our 

 American oaks ; they are rich in foliage and grand in every part of 

 their trunks and branches. 



And then there is the tulip tree. Where deep, mellow soil can be 

 obtained, there is nothing handsomer. It should be transplanted 

 small ; the foliage is clean, light green, and the flowers like a green 

 and orange tulip. It is well adapted for avenues, as also the lawn. 



What shall I plant for street shade trees? Do not plant the silver 

 maple or the poplar, simply because they grow fast. In a few years 

 you will regret it, on account of their rapid growth. Slower growing 

 trees, such as the sugar maple, and some may like the horse chest- 

 nut or the sycamore, you will find preferable, and these are not too 



