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Some Trees and Shrubs for 

 Trying Sites 



// you have a difficult condition to face in planting your garden these following lists will help. They are 

 not offered as finalities, but rather as guides to help toward a reasonable solution of everyday problems. 



RAPID GROWING TREES FOR QUICK RESULTS 



COMMON NAME 



HEIGHT 

 FEET 



Silver maple 

 Box elder 

 Tree of Heaven 



Black alder 

 European white 



birph 

 •Western catalpa 

 White ash 

 *Sweet gum 



Tulip tree 



Buttonwood 

 Lombardy poplar 



Carolina poplar 



To 1 20 

 To 70 

 To 60 



To 70 

 To 80 



To 100 

 To 120 

 To 140 



To 150 



To 80 

 To so 



To 75 



CHARACTER 



Wide, spreading 

 Spreading 

 Loose, spreading 



Slender 

 Upright, slender 



Tall, graceful 

 Pyramidal, broad 

 Symmetrical, 



rounded 

 Pyramidal 



Broad, low 



Tall, slender, cylin- 

 drical 



Straight, narrow, 

 pyramidal 



FOLIAGE 



D — Deciduous 

 E — Evergreen 



Greenish, yellow 



Before leaves 



Greenish. Staminate, ill 



smelling 

 Catkins 



White. June 



Greenish yellow, large. 

 June 



SCIENTIFIC OR TRADE NAME 



Winged 

 Winged 



Small cones 

 Long pods 



Odd, rough, globular 



Acer saccharinum 

 Acer Negundo, vars. 

 Ailanthus glandulosa 



Alnus glutinosa 

 Bel ul a alba 



Catalpa speciosa 

 Fraxinus alba 

 Liquidambar slyracifolia 



Liriodendron tulipifera 



Platanus orientatts 

 Populus nigra, var. Italica 



Populus deltoides, var. Carolinensis 



' Not wholly hardy in North. 



SELECTED SHRUBS FOR SHADED SITUATIONS 





HEIGHT 

 FEET 



CHARACTER 





COMMON NAME 













SCIENTIFIC OR TRADE NAME 





FORM 



D- 



-Deciduous 



FLOWERS 



FRUIT 











E- 



-Evergreen 









Aoanthopanax 



5-10 



Arching 



D 





Inconspicuous 



Black 



A canlhopanax pentaphyllum 



Azalea 



2-8 



Various 



D andE 



Various. April-July 





Azalea sp. 



Mahonia 



3-6 



Stiff, branchy 



E 





Yellow, small. May 



Blue, persistent 



Berberis Aquifolium 



Barberry 



1-3 



Dense, bushy 



D 





Yellow, small. May 



Red. All winter 



Berberis vulgaris, and Thunbergii 



Box 



2-10 



Dense, rounded 



E 









Buxus sempenirens 



"Carolina allspice 



3-6 



Erect 



D 





Brown, sweet. June 





Calycanthus Uoridus 



New Jersey tea 



3 



Erect, branching 



D 





White, loose. July 





Ceanothus Americanus 



Pepper bush 



3-10 



Bushy 



D 





White, showy. June 





Clethra alnifolia 



Dogwood 



ToS 



Spreading 



D 



Red bark 



White. May 



White 



Cornus stolonijera 



Dogwood 



To 10 



Erect 



D 



Red bark 



White. May 



Bluish 



Comus alba 



Dogwood 



6-15 



Erect 



D 



Gray bark 



White. May 



White. Red stems 



Cornus candidissima 



Deutzia 



2-7 



Spreading, erect 



D 





White to pink. May 





Deutzia sp. 



Golden bell 



To 10 



Erect 



D 





Yellow, profuse, before leaves 





Porsvtkia viridissima or intermedia 



•Balls of snow 



4-10 



Erect 



D 





White. June-Tuly 





Hydrangea arborescens 



St. John's wort 



3-4 



Dense, stiff 



D 



Red bark 



Scattered, yellow. July-Aug. 



Red 



Hypericum aureum 



Mountain laurel 



4-10 



Erect 



E 





Pinkish white. May 





Kalmia latifolia 



Privet 



2-20 



Erect, dense 



D 





Clusters, white, sweet. June 





Ligustrum sp. 



Bush honeysuckle 



4-10 



Upright 



D 





Delicate, pink. June 



Coral 



Lonicera Tatarica 



Stagger bush 



2-4 



Arching 



D 





Pink, white, long clusters. 



April 

 Pink, large 





Pieris Mariana 



•Rhododendron 



2-8 



Branching, woody 



E 







Rhododendron sp. 



Rhodora 



i-3 



Bushy 



D 





Rose-purple. April, May 





Rhodora (Azalea) Canadensis 



White kerria 



3-6 



Branching 



D 





Large, white. May 



Shiny black 



Rhodotypos kerrioides 



Sumac 



3-8 



Spreading 



D 





Yellow clusters before leaves 



Large red berry 



Rhus Canadensis 



Smoke bush 



To 12 



Stiff, spreading 



T) 





Loose, purple, fluffy 





Rhus Cotinus 



Mountain currant 



Low 



Trailing 



D 





Yellowish green 



Scarlet edible berry 



Ribes alpinum 



Swamp rose 



3-8 



Dense, upright 



D 



Spring 



Pink. Julv 



Conspicuous red hips 



Rosa Carolina 



Flowering raspberry 



3-6 



Spreading 



D 





Purple, rose-like. June 





Rubus odoralus 



Common elder 



5-12 



Shrubby 



D 





Flat, dense masses, white. 



June 

 Profuse, white, fragrant . 



June 

 Loose clusters, pink. July 



Purple 



Sambucus Canadensis 



Spirea 



To 10 



Graceful, arching 



D 







Spiraa arguta, Van Houtlei, etc. 



Snowberry 



2-6 



Spreading 



D 



but per- 

 sistent 



White, many 



Symphoricar pos racemosus 



Snowball, arrow- 



8-20 



Upright, spreading 



D 



Large, white. May, June 



Red to black 



Viburnum, several sp. 



wood, etc. 





tree form, etc. 













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