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admirable quality, that if bruised in the bark it will 
readily heal over; while the maple is almost sure to 
spread decay at damaged points. 
I append a list of what I conceive to be the twen- 
ty-five best lawn trees: The white elm, the Hunt- 
ington elm, the white ash, the native beech, the 
double red-flowered horse chestnut, the native lin- 
den, the Norway maple, the Wiers cut-leaved 
maple, the sugar maple; the swamp or water maple, 
magnolia acuminata, the American white oak, the 
macrocarpa or burr oak, the tulip tree; adding to 
these for evergreens the Norway spruce, the Amer- 
ican arbor-vitae, the white pine, the Scotch pine, 
the hemlock; and for nut trees adding the butter- 
nut, the hickorynut, the walnut, and the chestnut. 
A good list for a small lawn might be made out 
of the following: the cut-leaved weeping birch, the 
purple-leaved beech, our native bird cherries, the 
double-flowered cherry, the double rose-flowered 
crabapple, the Camperdown weeping elm, the 
mountain ash. To these may be added the double- 
flowered peach, the double scarlet thorn, the rose- 
mary-leaved willow, the magnolias Soulangeana 
and tripetela, Wiers cut-leaved weeping maple, 
the Japanese maples, and the Russian maples. 
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