ORNAMENTAL TREES AND SHRUBS. 



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SELECTIONS OF ORNAMENTAL TREES, ETC. 



The Trees most suitable for planting in Streets and Avenues, are the Silver, Norway, and 

 Sugar Maples, European Sycamore, the various Elms, Ohio Buckeye, with dark glossy foliage, 

 Paulownia, Oriental Plane, Snowy Abele, the beautiful Salisburia of Japan, Tulip tree, Magnolia 

 acuminata and maxima, American Cypress, European Ash, Red twig Linden, and Silver-leaved 

 Linden. 



The common variety -of European Linden, and the common Horse Chestnut, drop their foliage 

 so early in autumn that they are entirely unsuited for streets, but will answer for other locations. 

 The Catalpa forms too spreading and irregular a head for planting in streets. The European 

 Alder will best suit any wet locality. The Ailanthus has latterly fallen into disrepute on account 

 of the odor of its blossoms; an evil easily remedied, however, by proper selection, as the odor pro- 

 ceeds only from one sex, latterly introduced, and therefore this objection does not apply at all to 

 the tree originally introduced, which was of the other sex. 



All the above-named trees are appropriate for extensive Lawns, to which may be added the 

 Weeping Willow, one of tte most elegant and graceful of all trees, and the Ring-leaved Weeping, 

 the Huntingdon Green, and the Golden-bark and Silvery -leaved Willows to aid in the picturesque. 

 The Liquidamber and Scarlet Maple are desirable not only for general ornament, but for their 

 reddening foliage in early autumn, thereby imparting a most pleasing diversity. The trees I 

 have enumerated are not suitable for ordinary small yards and other circumscribed positions ; 

 and for this object, we should select trees of secondary stature, such as the Mountain Ash, Mag- 

 nolia tripetela, Macrophylla, and Auriculata, White Fringed Ornus, Laburnum, Japan Angelicai 

 European Bird Cherry, Blush Acacia, and Virgilia^utea. C 



We come next to the third Class of Trees, which may be more properly ranked as large 

 Shrubs, as they branch low, and to the largest class of Flowering Shrubs, all of which may be 

 pruned to suit the space to be occupied; such as the Magnolia Norbertiana, beautifully striped, the 

 M. Soulangiana with paler stripes, M. Glauca and conspicua with white flowers, and the Japan 

 purple, and Chinese Purple and White flowering, the Halesia, Purple Fringe, Japan Sophora, 

 Hawthorn, Cornelian Cherry, Silvery Eleagnus, European Euonymus, the beautiful varieties of 

 Double Althea, Rhamnus carolinus, (fee. These will serve to fill up the complement in adorn- 

 ment. 



WEEPING TREES OF FAIR SIZE. 



Price each. 



1 Ash, 2 species $1 to 1 50 



2 Beech, 2 varieties, Green & Purple 1 50 



3 Birch 1 00 



4 Cherry, 2 varieties 1 to 1 50 



5 Cytisus, 2 species 1 00 



6 Elm 1 00 



7 Linden 1 50 



Price each. 



8 Laburnum $1 to 1 50 



9 Larch 2 00 



10 Mountain Ash 1 00 



11 Peach. 50 



12 Poplar 1 00 



13 Sophora 1 50 



14 Willow, 3 varieties 50 to 1 00 



DECIDUOUS ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS. 



The following comprises a Select Assortment of the most beautiful and estimable species. The 

 inferior species are omitted. N. B. Extra large Shrubs of most of the kinds can be supplied at 

 proportionate prices. 



Botanical Name. Common Name. Price. 



1 Abelia fioribunda Abelia, Profuse flowered 4 . - $0 38 



2 Abelia rupestris Abelia, Sylvan , , 38 



3 Abelia trifiora .Abelia Three flowered 50 



4 Abelia uniflora Abelia Solitary flowered 50 



N. B. The above are beautiful flowering Dwarf Shrubs, that require some protec- 

 tion in this latitude. 



5 Acacia Julibrissin Sensitive tree 1 00 



6 Amelanchier botryapium Mespilus, Snowy flowered 38 



*7 Amelanchier arbutifolia, Mespilus, Scarlet-berried 50 



8 Amorpha fruticosa Indigo Shrub 25 



9 Amorpha canescens Indigo Shrub, Hoary 25 



10 Amygdalus Almond, Flowering. (See page 24.) 



11 Andromeda paniculata Andromeda, panicled 50 



12 Andromeda racemosa Andromeda, Racemed 60 



13 Andromeda speciosa, &c Andromeda, Splendid, and others . . . 75 



14 Artemesia abrotanum Southernwood, or Citronelle 25 



