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jbeciJuoul Drees • TOWSON NURSERIES, 



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Too often the value of fruit trees in the home landscape is overlooked. Here is an example of successful landscape 

 treatment making full use of the Apple tree as a specimen, providing shade and fruit as well. 



CARPINUS • Hornbeam 



HE HORNBEAMS are trees of dense head with medium sized, bright green leaves 

 in the spring, turning to a yellow or scarlet color in the fall. They are very valuable 

 for high hedges, and make a splendid game cover, retaining their withered foliage through- 

 out most of the winter. They are very hardy, and will thrive in any good soil. 



CARPINUS betulus (European Hornbeam). 



Dense habit, rich foliage and interesting catkins are 

 characteristic of this lovely tree from Europe. 



C. caroliniana (American Hornbeam). Bushy, 

 with dense, slender and somewhat pendulous branches. 

 Dark, bluish-green foliage changes to lovely autumn 

 tints. 



CASTANEA— See Nut Trees. 



CELTIS occidentalis (American Hackberry). 



Large tree usually to one hundred feet. Light green 

 foliage and orange red fruit. 



CERCIDIPHYLLIUM japonicum (Katsura 

 tree). Imported from Japan, where it is abundant 

 on slopes of certain hills and mountains. Pyramidal 



in outline. Interesting heart-shaped foliage is pur- 

 plish in spring and refreshing light green in sum- 

 mer. Makes a charming specimen, invaluable as a 

 hedge plant. The fall coloring, bright yellow and 

 partially scarlet, is exceptionally beautiful. 



CERCIS canadensis (American Redbud). A 



rapidly growing, round-headed tree, growing to forty 

 feet. Rosy pink flowers, extremely effective in a 

 planting with white Dogwood. 



CLADRASTIS lutea (Yellow-Wood). Sym- 

 metrically shaped, one of the finest and rarest trees 

 of North America. Although native to Kentucky, 

 Tennessee and North Carolina, it is hardy in the 

 North. White pea-shaped flowers, delicately fragrant, 

 appear in May in large clusters in such profusion as 

 to almost clothe the tree. 



