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ALBANY NURSERIES, Incorporated 
DECIDUOUS SHADE TREES. 
AILANTHUS, GLANDULOSA (Tree of Heaven) — A lofty, rapid growing 
tree, thriving well on barren soils, and making a beautiful shade tree; some 
object to it on account of the disagreeable odor of the leaves and flowers. 
ALDER, EUROPEAN — A remarkable rapid growing tree, with roundish, 
wedge shaped foliage. Well adapted to most situations. 
ALDER, IMPERIAL CUT-LEAVED — A stately, vigorous growing tree, of 
graceful habits, with large and deeply lacinated foliage. A grand lawn tree. 
ASH, EUROPEAN — Large, spreading tree, of rapid growth; darker foliage 
than the American. 
ARALIA, JAPONICA (Angelica Tree) — A handsome, distinct, small tree 
from Japan; of spreading habit of growth, with immense finely-divided foliage 
and spiny stems. Flowers white, in large spikes, in July. 
ARALIA, SPINOSA — A very showy sort. Broad, handsomely cut foliage, 
and immense clusters of small white flowers in July or August. A singular 
looking small sized tree, with very prickly stems, pinnate leaves. It suckers 
occasionally from the roots, but not after well established. 
BEECH, EUROPEAN — A beautiful tree attaining a height of 60 or 80 feet. 
BEECH, PURPLE-LEAVED — A remarkable variety, with very dark pur- 
plish foliage, changing to crimson, and again in the fall to dark purplish 
green, making a striking contrast with the green of other trees. Highly 
ornamental and desirable. When fully grown, 40 to 50 feet high. 
BEECH, RIVERSI— Smooth leaved purple. This variety differs from the 
ordinary purple leaved by its compact, symmetrical growth, and crimson foli- 
age early in the spring, changing to dark purple in the summer. One of the 
finest of all purple leaved trees. 
BIRCH, EUROPEAN WHITE — Remarkable for its elegance; very grace-' 
ful with silver bark and slender branches; quite erect when young, but after- 
wards assuming an elegant drooping habit. 
CATALPA BUNGEI — This, on its own root, is a dwarf Catalpa, a close, 
compact shrub, absolutely healthy, hardy; its branches are numerous and 
short, the broad leaves lay as shingles on a roof, making a dense shade, and 
when worked eight or more feet high, makes the umbrella shaped top tree 
equal, if not even more symmetrical than the famous Chinese Umbrella tree 
of the south; being thus worked it has grown five and one-half feet in diam- 
eter in two years. 
CATALPA, HARDY, OR WESTERN (Speciosa)— This early blooming, 
upright variety is much hardier than the Syringa-Leaved, having proven it- 
self able to stand the severest winters of Wisconsin and Iowa; making when 
planted in groves, straight, symmetrical trees, suitable for posts. or railway 
ties, for which purpose it is one of the most useful trees known, lasting in 
many instances nearly or quite a century. 
