Tree Life 
plants, and that a large section—more than a quarter— 
of all our native and naturalized species are not less 
worthy of cultivation for their luxuriant display of flowers 
than are the ornamental shrubs. For the clearer view of 
the matter we therefore divide this non-amentaceous 
group into two parts, the first containing those trees that 
are often quite as notable for their beautiful floral display 
as for fine foliage or imposing figure. These are the 
ORNAMENTAL BLOSSOMING TREES 
Silver-bell-tree 
Flowering Dogwood 
Red Bud 
Wild Apple 
June-berry 
Catalpa 
Black Haw 
Tulip-tree 
Common Locust 
Clammy Locust 
Wild Yellow Plum 
Red Maple 
Papaw 
Umbrella-tree 
Ear-leaved Umbrella-tree 
Small Magnolia 
Great-leaved Magnolia 
Cucumber-tree 
‘ Loblolly Bay 
Sweet Leaf 
Fringe-tree 
Sweet Viburnum 
Yellow Wood 
American Mountain-ash 
Horse-chestnut 
Ohio Buckeye 
Sweet Buckeye 
Purplish Buckeye 
Red Buckeye 
Sour Wood 
Cockspur Thorn 
White Thorn 
Black Thorn 
Washington Thorn 
Summer Thorn 
English Hawthorn 
Downy-leaved Hawthorn 
Dotted Haw 
Southern Buckthorn 
Alternate-leaved Dogwood 
American Holly 
Wild Black Cherry 
Wild Red Cherry 
White Alder 
The following list contains the remaining non- 
amentaceous trees of our territory, whose bloom is 
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