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SHADE TREES FOR NORTH CAROLINA. 



Several of these have large, fleshy fruit and can only be used on central 

 parking strips or where they would not overhang pavements. 



AUTUMN FOLIAGE. 



In addition to the flowers, the foliage of many species assumes in 

 autumn bright hwes which renders it attractive. While in individual specr 

 imens there is occasionally deviation from the usual colors, the following 

 list shows the common autumn coloring : 



Color of Autumn Foliage of Trees. 



COMMON NAME. BOTANICAL NAME. COLOK OF FOLIAGE. 



Maples Acer Shades of red 



and yellow. 



White oak Quercus alba Shades of red. 



Red oak Quercus rubra ■. 



Swamp chestnut oak Quercus michauxii 



Dogwood Cornus florida 



Tulip poplar; tulip tree Liriodendron tuUpifera Shades of yellow. 



Black oak Quercus velutina 



Lindens Tilia 



Ashes Fraxinus 



Poplars Populus 



Hickories Hicoria 



Chestnut Castanea dentata 



Hop hornbeam Carpmus caroliniana 



Scarlet oak Quercus coccined Tones of crimson. 



Sweet gum Liquidambar 



Black gum Nyssa sylvatica 



Pin oak Quercus palustris 



Elms '. Ulmus Dull yellow 



or brown. 



Willow oak Quercus phellos " 



Sycamore and plane tree Platanus " 



River birch Betula nigra " 



OBJECTIONABLE TEEES. 

 The Otaheite or paper mulberry is a very objectionable tree, as it is 

 small, short-lived, late in leaflng and suckers badly. The cultivation of 

 the Ailanthus has been tried in several towns and it has been found unsat- 

 isfactory, both on account of the odor of the flowers of the male or stami- 

 nate plants, and the abundance of its suckers. Catalpa is objectionable 

 in localities where attacked by caterpillars. Tilia europea (T. parvi- 

 folia, etc.) is too small and short-lived. 



