NUT TREES IN LANDSCAPE WORK 



BY O. C. SIMONDS, LANDSCAPE GARDENER 



ALL trees are beautiful and should serve in some 

 place in landscape work. Some are more beautiful 

 than others and where but few trees can be used 

 the more beautiful would naturally be chosen. Much 

 attention is now being given 

 to the planting of nut trees 

 on home grounds, high- 

 ways, parks, city streets, 

 boulevards, country roads 

 and elsewhere. 



Not long ago a lawyer 

 was talking to me about 

 the beauty of black wal- 

 nuts. To his mind there 

 was no tree more beautiful, 

 and, from what he said, he 

 would use it almost to the 

 exclusion of other trees. 

 My own judgment does not 

 fully coincide with his, al- 

 though I consider a black 

 walnut a very attractive 

 tree. It grows to a large 

 size and is generally healthy, 

 foliage attractive in summer 



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 FULL BLOOM 



the black walnut would come about in the center of the 

 list for most locations. The list itself would vary for 

 different situations and climates. I should advise using 

 black walnuts plentifully along the highways, especially 



country roads, and some- 

 what sparingly in home 

 grounds and the other loca- 

 tions which I have named. 

 By plentifully I do not 

 mean to the exclusion of 

 other trees, for, in most 

 places, there should be 

 more elms and maples than 

 black walnuts, but high- 

 ways are so extensive that 

 many kinds of trees could 

 be used in abundance to 

 give shade. In woods there 

 might be places where black 

 walnuts could be used in 

 profusion. 



The objections that one 

 might raise to the use of 



Its shape is good and its black walnuts would be, first, the comparatively short 



The leaves usually drop season of the leaves. These come out rather late in the 



early and they are not especially attractive in autumn spring and drop early. Probably these trees can not be 



coloring. Black walnuts are strong in appearance. They improved very much in this respect. Second. Boys 





A HEAUTlFUL AND EFFECTIVE PLANTING OK ENGLISH WALNUTS ON A BROAD AVENUE 



lack the gracefulness of the elm and if I were making a 

 list of trees in the order of their appearance, placing the 

 most beautiful first and the least attractive last, I should 

 place several trees ahead of the black walnut, among them 

 sugar maples, elms and several of the oaks. Perhaps 



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will sometimes throw sticks at the trees to bring down the 

 nuts. If a boy comes in home grounds to do this he will 

 be considered a nuisanse. Branches are sometimes brok- 

 en and trees disfigured from this cause. Along highways 

 this objection might perhaps be lessened somewhat by 



