APPENDIX 
The following tables are prepared merely to facilitate selections of trees and shrubs on the 
basis of size and growth alone. Deciduous trees are arranged by classes in three tables, as follows : 
First, Deciduous trees of the largest class. Second, Deciduous of secondary size. 
Third, Deciduous trees of the smallest class. The usual growth, under good culture, 
at twelve years from the seed, is approximated ; and the ordinary height and breadth the tree 
attains at maturity, in the latitude of New-York City. Evergreen trees and shrubs are divided into 
three similar classes, except that evergreen shrubs are included vyith the smallest evergreen trees. 
Deciduous shrubs form a separate class, with their development indicated at six years after plant- 
ing such plants as are usually received from nurseries ; and also at maturity. These estimates of 
size are all based on a supposed good soil and culture ; and for specimens having an open exposure. 
The trees are classed as of the first, second, or third class, in size, on the basis of their entire 
weight. The Lombardy poplar, for instance, by height belongs to trees of the first class, but by 
breadth ranks with the smallest ; it is therefore put between the two extremes in the second class. 
When trees are budded or grafted on other stocks, as many weeping trees are, the age of the stock 
is included in the age for which estimates of sizes at twelve years from seed are given. But as such 
“■ worked ” trees are grafted at quite different heights on stocks of the same age, it must be under- 
stood that the estimates here given are for trees grafted in the manner most common in the great 
nurseries. Trees_ marked with a star * are those generally grafted on other stocks. 
It must not be inferred that these tables embrace all the trees described in the preceding work. 
Most of the leading species are represented by one or more out of many varieties. The 
species and varieties which are not included in the tables will be found at once by referring to the 
Index. 
DECIDUOUS TREES OF THE LARGEST CLASS. 
Page. 
Popular Name. 
Botanical Name. 
Usual Size 12 
Years from Seed. 
Usual Size at 
Maturity. 
Height. 
Breadth. 
Height. 
Breadth 
304 
The White Oak 
Quercus alba 
20 ft. 
12 ft. 
80 ft. 
80 ft. 
307 
Swamp White Oak 
Q. tornentosa 
20 
12 
80 
70 
308 
Burr Oak 
20 
12 
70 
60 
310 
it 
Chestnut Oak 
Q. prhius pahistris 
25 
15 
80 
60 
310 
Rock Chestnut Oak 
Q. p. monticola. .• 
20 
15 
50 
60 
312 
Scarlet Oak 
Q. coccinea 
25 
IS 
70 
60 
313 
Pin Oak 
Q. palustris 
20 
15 
70 
60 
315 
ti 
Turkey Oak 
Q. cerris 
20 
15 
70 
60 
316 
it 
American White Elm. .. 
Ulmus americafia 
30 
25 
70 
80 
319 
English Elm 
U. campestris 
30 
20 
80 
70 
322 
ii 
Scotch Elm 
U. mo 7 ttana 
25 
20 
70 
70 
326 
American White Beech. . 
Fagus americana 
25 
15 
80 
70 
331 
American Red Beech. . . . 
F.ferruginea 
20 
15 
60 
70 
327 
Weeping Beech 
F. sylvaticus pettdula 
25 
15 
70 
70 
332 
American Chestnut 
Casianea americana . 
25 
20 
80 
80 
344 
it 
White or Silver Maple. . . 
A cer eriocarpum 
30 
25 
70 
70 
347 
it 
Sycamore Maple 
A cer pseudo platanus . ..... 
25 
16 
80 
70 
348 
Norway Maple 
A cer platafwides 
20 
16 
70 
60 
349 
Great-leaved Maple 
A cer macrophyllum 
30 
25 
70 
70 
351 
Black Walnut 
Juglans nigra 
30 
20 
So 
70 
354 
Shellbark Hickory 
Cary a alba 
25 
16 
80 
60 
356 
White Ash 
Fraxinus americana 
25 
16 
80 
60 
360 
Cottonwood 
Populus canadensis 
40 
20 
80 
70 
362 
it 
Silver-leaved Poplar 
Poptdus alba cattescens 
35 
25 
70 
70 
364 
it, 
Whitewood or Tulip- tree. 
Liriodendron ttdipifera . . . . 
30 
16 
80 
70 
369 
Cucumber Magnolia 
Magftolia acuminata 
30 
16 
80 
60 
384 
Sycamore 
Platanus occidentalis 
35 
23 
80 
80 
38s 
Oriental Plane-tree 
Platanus orientalis 
30 
20 
80 
80 
387 
it 
Weeping Willow 
Salix babylonica 
40 
40 
60 
60 
389 
Golden Willow 
Salix vitellma 
35 
30 
60 
50 
405 
a 
Ginkgo, or Salisburia 
Salisburia adiantifolia 
30 
16 
80 
60 
406 
Large-leaved Salisburia.. 
Salisb^iria tnacrophylla 
30 
16 
80 
60 
406 
(V 
Variegated Salisburia... 
Salisburia variegata 
? 
? 
? 
? 
406 
Scotch Larch 
Larix europcea 
35 
20 
80 
50 
