SIXTEEN TREES FOR LAWN AND STREET 233 



are also times when Sugar Maples can be used to good advantage 

 and help give variety, for the leaves are of a Ughter green than those 

 of the Norway Maple and have a silvery tint on the under side. 

 Sugar Maples are among the finest trees for coloring in Fall, and 

 for that reason, if for no other, deserve a prominent place in the 

 home grounds, where weU-colored Autumn foHage is as important 

 and desirable as flowers are during the Summer time. 



Wier's Cut-leaf Maple 



{Acer dasycarpum (saccharinum) Wierii) 



I like Wier's Cut-leaf Maple as a lawn tree, because it grows 

 fast. In five or six years from the time you plant a tree 1 J^ to 2 in. 

 in diameter, you wiU have a beautiful specimen with graceful 

 branches and cut leaves. It is quite different from any other tree 

 we have. While considered a soft Maple and not having the lasting 

 quahty of the hard sorts, it is nevertheless most desirable — though 

 not as a street or avenue tree, because of its weeping habit, and 

 because the branches hang down too low. 



MISCELLANEOUS FLOWER AND PLANT LISTS 

 Desirable Gut Flowers for Midwinter 



'THE main object in making out a fist of eighteen desirable Mid- 

 * winter flowering plants is to assist the beginner in selecting such 

 varieties as he may desire that are best adapted for flowering from 

 December first on up to, say, the end of February. After this time 

 a greater variety of cut flowers can be had each day, but it is during 

 the three previous months that we are rather hmited in our assort- 

 ment. I have no doubt but what if twenty-five different growers 

 were asked to arrange the list mentioned below according to the 

 importance of each plant, we would obtain twenty-five different 

 arrangements. But, after all, that is not as important as the fact 

 that these plants represent the main varieties that all of us make 

 use of. 



