THE ROMANCE OF OUR TREES 



In countries where raising trees from seeds has long 

 been practised most of these fastigiate trees have 

 been detected. Among American species five only 

 (Silver, Sugar, and Red Maples, Tulip-tree and White 

 Pine) have given rise to fastigiate trees. Of these 

 that of the Tulip-tree and of the Silver Maple origi- 

 nated in Europe and probably that of the Red Maple 

 also. The other two owe their preservation to the 

 Arnold Arboretum, and they rank among the best 

 of their class. The fastigiate Sugar Maple (Acer 

 saccharum var. monumentale) is one of the narrowest 

 of all trees and is strikingly distinct in appearance. 

 The branches are comparatively few and quite 

 erect, and the tree is well adapted for planting by the 

 side of narrow roads. The parent tree was dis- 

 covered in 1885 growing in a cemetery in Newton, 

 Mass. The specimen in the Arboretum collection 

 is 50 feet tall and is a graft from the original tree. 

 The upright form of the Red Maple {A. rubrum var. 

 columnare) was found growing in 1889 in the old 

 Parsons Nursery, Flushing, New York, but noth- 

 ing is known of its history. It is rather broader 

 in outline than the fastigiate Sugar Maple and is 

 most decidedly a valuable tree. The form of the 

 Silver Maple {A. saccharinum var. pyramidale) origi- 

 nated in Spath's Nursery in Germany and we have 

 only small specimens. As its name suggests it is 



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