SHADE TREES AND EVERGREENS 



this. Its shape, form of trunk and branches, leaves and 

 bark, all are beautiful, and the tree Hves to a very great age. 

 All things considered, it is one of the finest Oaks. 



Pecans. Here is a class of beautiful shade trees which, 

 at the same time, give nuts more valuable than chestnuts or 

 walnuts. Their limit of practical hardiness for bearing is 

 considered to be about the Mason and Dixon line, but the 

 trees will live even in Xew York or Michigan. It is in the 

 South, however, that Pecans should be planted most exten- 

 sively. Two or three Pecan trees will yield five hundred pounds 

 of nuts each year when they are twenty years old, and be 

 almost as fine shade trees as Maples. 



Carolina Poplar. Much-planted park and street tree. 



Tulip Tree. Large tree with a round top. Both leaves 

 and branches grow very dense and close. Blooms in early 

 spring; the flowers are not sho\\y, but their size and unique 

 form and coloring make them conspicuous. 



Smoke Tree (Purple Fringe). Half tree and half shrub. 

 Bears pale purple flowers and after them yellow leaves come 

 out. The blossoms are in long, loose clusters and they soon 

 fade and become so feathery edged as to conceal their true 

 outline, giving the tree the appearance of a ball of smoke. 



Black Walnut. The common Walnut tree which every- 

 body knows. Does not yield much shade, but few trees are 

 handsomer in shape. When planted in a place where it stands 

 out alone the tree is very dignified and noble looking. In 

 groves for beauty and nuts it is very desirable. For timber- 

 planting few trees are better, because Walnut grows so fast 

 and Walnut lumber is so high-priced. 



Oriental Plane. An excellent reliable old shade tree, 

 best suited to planting where there is plenty of space, as on 

 farms and at small town homes. 



Some people like Evergreens better than shade trees. Here are two 

 Arborvitaes, three Spruces, and about one hundred feet of American 

 Arborvitae hedge. The five Evergreen trees, good-sized planting stock, 

 the hedge material, and the six Silver Maples outside the fence, in lo- 

 foot size, would cost about $15. 



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