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admirable quality, that if bruised in the bark it will 

 readily heal over; while the maple is almost sure to 

 spread decay at damaged points. 



I append a list of what I conceive to be the twen- 

 ty-five best lawn trees: The white elm, the Hunt- 

 ington elm, the white ash, the native beech, the 

 double red-flowered horse chestnut, the native lin- 

 den, the Norway maple, the Wiers cut-leaved 

 maple, the sugar maple; the swamp or water maple, 

 magnolia acuminata, the American white oak, the 

 macrocarpa or burr oak, the tulip tree; adding to 

 these for evergreens the Norway spruce, the Amer- 

 ican arbor-vitae, the white pine, the Scotch pine, 

 the hemlock; and for nut trees adding the butter- 

 nut, the hickorynut, the walnut, and the chestnut. 



A good list for a small lawn might be made out 

 of the following: the cut-leaved weeping birch, the 

 purple-leaved beech, our native bird cherries, the 

 double-flowered cherry, the double rose-flowered 

 crabapple, the Camperdown weeping elm, the 

 mountain ash. To these may be added the double- 

 flowered peach, the double scarlet thorn, the rose- 

 mary-leaved willow, the magnolias Soulangeana 

 and tripetela, Wiers cut-leaved weeping maple, 

 the Japanese maples, and the Russian maples. 



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