CHAPTER VI 

 ORNAMENTAL TREES STANDARDS 



THE standard form of ornamental trees is a very popular one and 

 has its own special uses. Many of the varieties cannot be effectively 

 used in any other form because of the dimensions to which they 

 attain. A scarlet oak, for example, or a purple beech, planted as 

 bushes in a shrubbery would prove as destructive to their companions 

 as a young cuckoo would be in a nest of young yellow-hammers. 



While the variety of standard ornamental trees reaches quite a 

 formidable number, " market " varieties are, fortunately, limited, 

 there being no such " weeder out " anywhere as the market. Only 

 those that are well known, in general use, and comparatively inex- 

 pensive " need apply." Rare and choice varieties are still left to 

 the care of the general nurseryman. We offer here what we deem 

 to be a fairly representative collection for our purpose, to which 

 others might be added but none taken away. 



Acacia. 



Acer negunda variegata. 



Ash mountain, variegated and weeping. 



Beech copper and purple. 



Cerasus double flowering cherry, in variety. 



Chestnut scarlet . 



Crabs Siberian, John Downey and Pyrus malus vars. 



Elm variegated and weeping. 



Laburnum. 



Thorns double and single reds, pinks and white. 



Oak scarlet. 



Prunus Pissardi. 



To these we feel obliged to add three which are not strictly orna- 

 mental but are used as such in numbers far in excess of any of the 

 above. We refer to the birch, than which, in our opinion, there is 

 nothing more ornamental than a well-grown solus specimen, for 

 " the lady of the woods " is by no means out of place in the garden, 



