SIXTEEN TREES FOR LAWN AND STREET 229 



Honey Locust {Gleditschia triacanthos) 



We use the Honey and other Locusts for bank and bluff plant- 

 ings, or where slopes are to be held. Like the Willows and Russian 

 Mulberries, they grow great root mats and so hold the soil in place. 

 The Honey Locust, however, will also make a fine tree, and its wood 

 is as hard as anything you want to saw. The tree not only has 

 beautiful foUage, quite distinct from that of other trees such as 

 Maples, Elms or Horse Chestnuts, but its beautiful white flowers 

 make it still more desirable. You can use it for either lawn or street, 

 and while it grows straight up when crowded, it makes a fine shade 

 tree if given plenty of room. 



HoBSE Chestnut {JEsculus Hippocastanum) 



Why not grow more Horse Chestnuts ? There are plenty of 

 sections, especially throughout the great Middle West, where these 

 fine trees will do well, both for lawn and street planting. Yet much 

 less desirable ones are made use of. Like the Norway Maple, when 

 once established, they will develop into magnificent specimens with 

 but little care. They are ornamental, interesting, excellent shade 

 trees, and a highway couldn't possibly be lined with anything more 

 becoming. There are white flowering and red flowering sorts and 

 even double varieties of both. The white flowering one is the best 

 known and even as a smaU tree it is showy. The double white Horse 

 Chestnut makes a most showy flowering tree, but, unlike the single 

 form, produces no fruit. 



Linden, European {Tilia platyphyllos) 



The European Linden is a fast grower, much valued for its 

 delightfully fragrant flowers, and a most desirable subject for lawn 

 planting. The tree is of pyramidal form and fine habit. Tilia 

 americana, or American Linden (also caUed Basswood), also makes 

 a fine permanent tree with leaves of a lighter green and somewhat 

 smaller. There are also several other varieties, all good and well 

 worth having either as lawn or street trees. The Silver Linden is 

 another desirable tree on account of the sflver grayish color of the 

 underside of its leaves. Finally, the weeping or drooping Linden 

 makes a handsome lawn tree. 



Mountain Ash (Sorbus) 



Both Sorbus americana, the American native Mountain Ash, 

 and Sorbus Aucuparia, the European Mountain Ash, are handsome 

 trees for the home grounds. They not only have fine foliage, de- 

 sirable because it is different from that of the Oak, Basswood or 

 Maple, but also are highly valued for the clusters of reddish berries 

 with which the trees are loaded during the Summer and Fall months, 



