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Chestnuts, continued 



Japanese. Castanea crenata. No more luxuriant 

 tree has come to us from Japan. It has shining 

 leaves, and is full and round, foliaged to the 

 ground. The question is sometimes asked, "Can 

 I plant Cherry, Peach and Pear trees in the lawn, 

 and have them as ornamental shade trees?" 

 Yes, but cultivation is better for them and their 

 foliage is not certain to remain healthy. With 

 nut trees it is advisable. Plant fifty Japanese 

 Chestnuts instead of Deutzia, Spirea, Snowball, 

 etc., in the shrub border, and they will make a 

 denser screen of handsome foliage, always 

 healthy. As a specimen lawn tree, it will 

 make a sturdy little tree 20 feet high and 

 equally wide. The nuts begin to ripen 

 several weeks before the American. In 

 Japan and Europe the Chestnut is a staple 

 food. Plant Japanese Chestnuts and the 

 Chinquapins in quantity to get nuts quickly 

 as they bear in two or thrt years. The nuts 

 are an inch in diameter, or larger; are good 

 raw and excellent cooked, but not equal to 

 the American in flavor. 



We have grown a large quantity which we 

 offer at low rates. Now that the American 

 Chestnuts are dying, these should be ex- 

 tensively planted. See under Nuts. 



Chinquapin. C. pumila. A hardy shrub, 

 bearing a profusion of sweet little nuts in 

 early September. 



Elm Ulmus 



American. Ulmus Americana. No tree of tem- 

 perate climates exceeds the Elm in gracefulness 

 and majesty. It likes a moist situation, but it 

 will grow on any good soil. We have trees up to 

 55 feet high, with spread of roots and tops of 30 

 feet, ready for successful transplanting. 



Weeping. U. Americana, var. pendula. The 

 rapidity of growth of this variety is surprising, 

 often 7 feet per season. It is a healthy, tall tree, 

 open in form, with wide arched streamers, which 



Dogwood ' Cornus 



White - flowering. Cornus florida. The 

 White Dogwood has the most showy flower 

 of the native small trees. It thrives in 

 the open lawn or in the shady forest where 

 its large white flowers, arranged in horizon- 

 tal groups, illuminate the dark nooks early 

 in May. All summer its foliage is dense 

 and healthy, and its red leaves and scarlet 

 berries mark the first changes of autumn. 

 Plant Dogwoods 8 to 12 feet apart among 

 the taller shrubs. They make the best 

 border to feather down the edge of newly 

 cut forest. Give them more sunlight, and 

 they will bloom profusely. In thinning 

 thick woods for landscape forestry, leave 

 groups of Dogwood, even if small and 

 crooked. Plant the White Dogwood with 

 the White Pine, White Oak, Tulip, White Birch, 

 and you have a group that grows naturally 

 together. 



Red-flowering. C. florida, var. rubra. A beautiful 

 little tree destined to have a wider popularity. 

 It is a gem worthy to rank with the Magnolias. 

 New and rare is, in this case, synonomous with 

 good. Plant a few of these and the Japanese 

 Dogwood, and use them to graft in April, or 

 bud in August on the wild Dogwood in the woods. 

 A long step will then be taken in solving the 

 problem of how to beautify the woods with 

 harmonious planting. 



Japanese. C. Kousa. Ignorance of its beauty 

 is the only excuse for not planting this little 

 tree. It is the counterpart of the White Dogwood 

 in foliage and, therefore, harmonizes with the 

 same surroundings. The chaste beauty of the 

 white star-shaped flowers thickly covering the 

 dark foliage surpasses any flowering tree of its 

 season, which is a month later than any other. 

 We have a large stock which is offered at low 

 rates to introduce it. 



The Japanese Chestnut will quickly make a broad, rounded and 

 permanently healthy mass of foliage of this form and size. It fruits 

 early and abundantly. 



make a graceful outline against the sky both 

 winter and summer. If the situation calls for 

 a tree to vary the solidity of ordinary trees, 

 plant the Weeping Elm. There is nothing ab- 

 normal or depressing in its appearance. 



Ginkgo Maidenhair Tree 



Ginkgo biloba ; syn., Salisburia adiaiitifolia. 



This tree is destined to have many admirers 

 when old specimens become known. In maturity 

 it loses the ungainly awkwardness of growth and 

 makes a handsome individual in pleasant con- 

 trast to ordinary trees. Its nearly complete 

 immunity from insect and fungus is unique. 

 Storms do not break its branches, and it gives 

 every promise of living 1,000 years here, as in the 

 Japanese temple gardens. 



Hickory Hickoria ; syn., Gary a 



Mockernut. Hickoria tomentosa. A big, square- 

 shouldered, long-lived tree. On the drier parts 

 of Long Island this and some of the Oaks are the 

 largest trees. 



