Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs, Etc. 
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Hop Tree, or Wafer 
Ash 
A small tree, seldom 
growing over 12 feet high ; 
perfectly hardy ; leaf 
three-Iobed, dark green 
and glossy ; seed enclosed 
in a cirenlar wing, which 
hang in clusters. It has 
a very peculiar strong hop 
smell . 
European Larch 
This is one of the most 
rapid-growing of tlie co- 
niferous trees, frequently 
making a growth of 3 or 4 
feet in a year. The wood 
is hard, and when the 
trees are mature makes a 
very durable post timber. 
In Europe trees have been 
grown slowly. Thetimber 
has been used for piling 
along wharves, and has 
been known to have lasted 
for hundreds of years. 
Tills tree closely re- 
sembles the American 
Tamarack, but differs 
from it in being of more 
rapidgrowth, and eonesof 
much larger size. 
BlacK Locust 
Tliis is the common 
form of Locust grown 
through the central West. 
Rather a slow-growing, 
hard -wooded tree with 
yellow or white flowers 
borne in long, pendulous 
racemes. Theflowers are 
very fragrant and wood 
durable as post timber. 
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Magnolia acuminata 
(Cucumber Magnolia) 
A beautiful pyramidal-growing tree, 
attaining from (iO to !)0 feet in height. 
Leaves 6 to 9 inches long. 
Maple 
Norway. A handsome tree, of fairly 
rapid growth, forming a dense, rounded 
head of strong branches and broad, deep 
green leaves. Sturdy, compact, vigorous, 
it is Olio of tlie very best trees for lawns, 
parks and gardens. 
SoH, or Silver. The common soft Maple 
west of the Mississippi, with red bark 
and loaves white on under side. 
MAPLE, continued 
Wier's Cut-leaved Silver. It is a variety 
of the Silver-leaved Maple, and one of 
the most remarkable of trees, with cut or 
dissected foliage. Its growth is rapid, 
shoots slender and drooping, giving it a 
habit almost asgrncerul as the Cut-leaved 
Birch. The foliage is abundant, silvery 
underneath, and on the young wood 
especially deeply and delicately cut. The 
leaf -stalks are long and tinted with red on 
the upper surface. It ranks among the 
most interesting and attractive lawn trees, 
and may be easily adapted to small places 
by an occasional cutting back, which it 
will bear to any degree necessary. 
