Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs, Etc. 33 
NUT-BEARING TREES 
Butternut 
A most valuable nut tree; we have 
known them to bear at seven years from 
the seed. The nuts are long; kernel of a 
rich flavor. Plant in deep, moist soil for 
best results. 
Chestnut 
Sweet. See Shade and Ornamental 
Trees. 
Horse. See shade and Ornamental 
Trees. 
Hazelnut 
The common native nut-bearing shrub 
of our woods. 
Hickory 
Bitter. This tree closely resembles the 
shellbark, but with a bitter nut instead 
of a sweet one. The wood also is less 
valuable. 
Shellbark. In flavor and quality of 
kernel this is generally esteemed the 
choicest of our native nuts, — of all nuts, 
some experts have said. The tree is a 
handsome, stately shade tree, with tough 
white wood of great strength and elas- 
ticity. Marketable at high prices. 
Oak 
Pin. .\lmost pyramidal in habit, and 
sometimes described as half-weeping when 
old, because its lower branches touch the 
ground. It grows faster and develops the 
family characteristics earlier than most 
Oaks, as may be seen from some fine 
avenues planted within the last score of 
years. The leaves are deep green, glossy 
and finely divided. Orange-scarlet in fall. 
Red. A large tree, unusually large in 
leaf and quick in growth. The young 
shoots and leaf-stems are red, the foliage 
purplish crimson in autumn. A most 
beautiful, majestic obiect on the lawn; 
acorns very large. 
White. Grandest of its genus and of 
our American trees. .\ spreading, towering 
species, with rugged, massive trunk and 
branches. The deeply-lobed leaves change 
to dark crimson in fall. 
Black Walnut 
Too well known to need description. 
The lumber of this tree is becoming im- 
mensely valuable. We were informed 
by one of the leading furniture manu- 
facturers of this state, a short time since, 
that the best grades of black walnut lum- 
ber could not be bought for less than 
$250 per thousand feet. 
FLOWERING SHRUBS 
Althea, or Rose of Sharon 
Double-flowering. There are many 
varieties of these plants with a great va- 
riety of habit. They belong to the Hibiscus 
family, and are not hardy in this section, 
except where well protected. They bloom 
very freely in August and September, and 
flowers vary much in color among the 
different varieties. 
Flowering Almond 
A low shrub with leaves similar in 
shape to our wild plum, but a little more 
pointed; flowers very double. We grow 
two kinds, one with red and the other 
with white flowers. 
Bechtel's Double-Flowering Crab 
Most beautiful of all the fine varieties 
of Flowering Crabs. At a distance the 
pretty medium-sized tree seems to be 
covered with dainty little roses of a deli- 
cate pink color. Blooms when quite 
young. Is very fragrant. This is a va- 
riety of our native wild Crab, Pyrus 
coronaria lonensis. 
Barberry 
Purple-leaved. See Hedge Plants. 
Thunberg's. See Hedge Plants. 
Buffalo Berry 
A native shrub in the dry sections of 
both North and South Dakota, and it is 
also found throughout the Rocky moun- 
tains from Canada to Mexico. The flow- 
ers are small and yellow. The berries 
are a bright red and very sour. The 
leaves are a downy white on both sides. 
.\ peculiar shrub and should be much more 
grown than it is for ornamental purposes. 
Calycanthus floridus 
(Caroline Allspice, Sweet Shrub) 
This unique shrub grows rapidly up- 
right, clothing its straight, strong, red- 
dish brown shoots with large, glossy 
leaves, from the axils of which spring odd, 
double, spicily fragrant flowers of choco- 
late-red. The wood also has a peculiar 
fragrance. It is a hardy native shrub 
that deserves much wider planting. 
