100 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1893. 



Cratmgus : Thovu. — All the large growing species form fine fringes 

 along the borders of woodlands or parks ; they are attractive both in 

 fruit and flower. 



Fraxinus Americana: "White Ash. — A tree of the first order for 

 timber ; makes a fine road tree, but late coming into foliage ; to grow 

 it well requires a good, somewhat moist, soil. 



Fraxinus puhescens : Downy Ash.— A tree that will do on higher 

 grounds ; but it does not make so large a tree as F. Americana. 



Liriodendron tnlipifera. : Tulip Tree. — A grand ornamental tree ; 

 and further south it makes a fine timber tree a hundred feet or more 

 in height. 



Primus serotina: Wild Black Cherry. — Makes a fine timber or 

 ornamental tree ; the wood is also valuable for turning and for cabi- 

 net making. 



* Quercus rubra (Red Oak) ; Q. tinctoria (Quercitron, or Black Oak) ; 

 and Q. coccinea (Scarlet Oak). — All these do well on light soils. 

 Though not as valuable as the White Oak, they are of much more 

 rapid growth. Nothing is more beautiful than Q. coccinea for orna- 

 mental planting, and its autumn coloring far exceeds that of most of 

 the other oaks. 



Qxiercus paliistris : Swamp Spanish or Pin Oak. — Though natur- 

 ally fond of moist ground, this will adapt itself to almost any 

 situation. It is a tree of most rapid growth and beautiful form. 

 Trees planted from the seed box on a hill-side without any prepar- 

 ation ten years ago are to-day fine specimens ten or twelve feet high, 

 of beautiful form. This would make a most excellent street tree. An 

 avenue of these planted at Flushing, Long Island, by Mr. Samuel B. 

 Parsons, some twenty or twenty-five years ago, is the finest avenue 

 of Oaks on Long Island. 



Robinia Pseudacacia : Common Locust, or False Acacia. — Flour- 

 ishes on comparatively thin soils ; although in some sections it is 

 troubled with the borer, in soToe situations it does well. It is of very 

 rapid growth while young, and would make a good nurse tree until 

 others could be grown. The wood is very durable. 



Tilia Americana : American Linden, or Basswood. — A much finer 

 tree than the European Linden, and although it loves a moist situa- 

 tion it makes a fine tree in any ordinarily good soil. From the bark 

 can be made a bast equal to the finest Cuban, which is so much used 

 as a tying material. 



Salix alba: White Willow. — Also a fine tree; will do well in any 

 good soil ; is readily propagated by cuttings of any size, from six 



