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PARK AND CEMRTE-RT. 
AVEXUE OF SALISBURIA (GINKGO TRILOBA) U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE, WASHINGTON, D. C.. LOOKING TOWARD 
AGRICULTURAL BUILDING. 
An Avenue of Salisburias. 
The Salisburia, known as the “Maiden-Hair Tree” 
and Ginkgo, is much more abundant in nurseries and 
collections of trees than it was a few years ago. This 
arises from the fact that a large number of trees are 
now producing seeds from which seedlings are easily 
raised. Formerly our nurserymen relied on seeds or 
plants imported from Japan or Europe, but for ten 
years at least seeds have been procurable from large 
trees near Philadelphia, as no doubt they have been 
as well from near other large cities. 
The illustration represents a famous avenue of the 
tree leading to the Agricultural Building at Washing- 
ton, D. C. The beauty of the avenue has made it and 
the trees famous. These trees are of a seed-bearing 
age, and many of them have been fruiting for years ; 
but all trees are not seed-bearing. 
The name. Maiden Hair Tree, comes from the 
leaves, which are shaped exactly like those of the 
Maiden Hair fern. The foliage is exceedingly pretty, 
and it has the merit of keeping its bright green color 
to very late in Autumn. On a recent visit to Wash- 
ington in mid-October the writer noticed the trees 
were looking as fresh and green as at any time of 
the year. When the change does come, which is in 
November at Washington, the color changes from 
green to a pretty deep yellow. 
The outline of the trees are naturally much as the 
photograph shows them. These trees may have been 
pruned, but 1 do not think they have ; at any rate, 
they correspond in appearance to those near home, 
which have been permitted to grow as they will. 
In Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, there is a 
tree of it which lost its top in some way many years 
ago. It evinced no disposition to form a new leader, 
but has been content to produce lengthy horizontal 
shoots presenting a most curious arboricultural object. 
iMention has been made of the seeds of this tree. 
When ripe they resemble in appearance a small plum 
of a dull yellow appearance. They are round, and 
hang on a stem as a cherry does. And, like the plum 
or cherry, there is a hard shelled seed within. When 
crushed, the odor is offensive. On asphalt avenues, 
such as the one in the picture, these seeds, when on 
the pavement, are considered something of a nuisance, 
requiring sweeping up to prevent their crushing under 
the feet of the pedestrians. Mr. Quinn, of the De- 
partment of Agriculture, informed me that experi- 
ments had been made looking to the propagation of 
the male tree by budding to have avenues of trees 
that would not bear fruit, and it had been found they 
could be increased in that way. As single specimens 
on lawns they make grand trees, and in such situations 
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