GENEVA, NEW YORK 
Our Home Grounds. A Weir’s Cut-Leaf Maple. 
tatropurpureum (Japan Purple-Leaved Maple). Beau- 
tiful foliage of blood-red color. It is generally used for 
planting in groups to obtain a mass of crimson color. 
Jvar. atropurpureum dissectum (Japan Purple Cut- 
Leaved Maple). Form dwarf and weeping. The leaves 
are a beautiful rose color when young and turn to a dark 
rich purple. They are deeply and delicately cut giving 
them a fem-like appearance. 
frubrum (Red or Scarlet Maple). A native tree of small 
or medium size, the foliage changing in the autumn to the 
most gorgeous tints. Red blossoms appear before the leaves. 
’"saccharum or saccharinum (Sugar, Rock or Hard 
Maple). A very popular native tree, and for its stately 
form and fine foliage, justly 
ranked among the very best, 
both for the lawn and avenue. 
‘pseudo platanus (Syca- 
more Maple). A noble Euro- 
pean variety of rapid spread- 
ing growth, broad, deep green 
foUage, and a very desirable 
shade tree. 
*var. purpurea (Purple 
Sycamore Maple). A vari- 
ety of the preceding, of good 
free habit, foliage dark green 
on the upper surface and red 
purple underneath. 
‘Negundo Fraxinus Folius 
(Ash Leaved Maple or Box 
Elder). A strong growing, 
hardy tree of spreading habit. 
Seeds like a maple and foliage 
like an ash. 
Aesculus. Horsechestnut 
*A. Hippocastanum. (Single White Flowering Horse- 
chestnut). The common or European variety. A fine 
large tree of compact outline, dense foliage, profuse white 
flowers, tinged with red, borne in panicles in the spring. 
*var. alba Flore pleno (Double White Flowering Horse- 
chestnut). A superb variety, with double flowers in large 
panicles. 
fvar. rubicunda (Red Flowering Horsechestnut). Flow- 
ers showy red. The leaves are of a deep green. 
‘glabra (Ohio Buckeye). Leaves smooth, flowers yel- 
low, blooms in May. 
Jmacrostachya (Dwarf Horsechestnut). Smooth fruited 
horsechestnut. A beautiful low growing shrubby tree with 
splendid flower spikes in June. 
Aralia. Angelica Tree or Hercules Club 
tA. Spinosa. A native plant valuable for producing 
tropical effects, having prickly stems, pinnate leaves and 
bearing immense panicles of white flowers in August. 
tjaponica. Very much resembles the above. 
A. pentaphylla. A pretty Japanese shrub, of medium 
size and rapid growth; branches furnished with spines; 
leaves pale green. 
Alnus. Alder 
fA. glutinosa (European or Common). Foliage dark 
green and wedge shape. Makes a large tree 40 to 60 feet 
and spreading. 
var. laciniata (Cut-Leaved Imperial). A fine variety 
for a large lawn tree. It can be kept in any shape desired 
by severe pruning. 
Betula. Birch 
‘B. alba. (European White Birch). A graceful tree, with 
silvery bark and slender branches. Quite erect when 
young, but after four or five years’ growth assumes an 
elegant drooping habit. 
‘var. pendula laciniata (Cut Leaved White Weeping 
Birch). Deservedly the most popular and beautiful tree 
known, possessing straight trunk and drooping branches, 
full of grace and beauty. The outer bark is paper white, 
leaves light green deeply cut and drooping. 
Ailanthus. 
Tree of Heaven 
*A. Glandulosa. From Ja- 
pan. A rapid growing tree 
with long, elegant feathery 
foUage; one of the most dis- 
tinct of ornamental trees with 
pinnate foliage. Useful to 
produce tropical effects. 
A LANDSCAPE VIEW 0F;0UR HOME GROUNDS. 
From left to right— Purple Beech, Norway Maple, Norway Spruce. Cut-Leaf Linden. 
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