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APRIL, 1915 
EDITORIAL 
VOL. XXV No. 2 
Trees and Shrubs for Different Localities 
The problem of selecting the proper trees and shrubs for 
every locality is often a vexing and uncertain one, especially 
for a park or cemetery superintendent who finds himself 
taking up work in a new locality. This problem is fre- 
quently presented to the United States Department of Agri- 
culture. Soil and climatic conditions differ so greatly in the 
different sections of the United States that in answering such 
questions special consideration has to be given each section. 
The Department’s specialists have prepared a special list of 
trees and shrubs suited for general use in each of five gen- 
eral divisions of the United States The five divisions are as 
follows: 
1. New England States. New York. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, West 
Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa. 
2. Delaware. Maryland. Virginia, North Carolina. South Carolina!, Georgia. 
Tennessee, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma 
and Texas. 
3. Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, 
Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. 
4. New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Nevada. 
5. California, Oregon and Washington. 
These lists are merely suggestive, but they include such 
trees and shrubs as seem well adapted to the particular local- 
ity, and they may be of assistance to those who are interested 
in the beautification of towns and cities. Here is the list: 
DISTRICT 1. 
Deciduous trees. — Sugar maple. Norway maple, silver maple, green ash, white 
ash, American white elm. red oak. white oak, pin oak, American linden. 
Evergreen trees. — Norway spruce, white spruce, C (flora do blue spruce, white 
pine. Scotch pine, balsam fir. 
Shrubs. — Lilac, golden bell, exochorda, snowball, mock orange, hydrangea, 
Japan quince, flowering currant, calycanthus, cornus, deutzia, spiraea, weigela. 
DISTRICT 2. 
Deciduous trees. — Tulip, sycamore, pin oak, white oak, black oak. live oak, 
red oak, white ash, bald cypress, Norway maple, silver maple, red elm, Ameri- 
can white elm, Kentucky coffee, American linden, catalpa, liquidambar. 
Carolina poplar, haekberry, sour gum. 
Evergreen trees. — White pine, long-leaf pine, magnolia, live oak, cedar of 
Lebanon. 
Shrubs. — Golden hell, hydrangea, lilac, Elaeagnus longipes, lonicoras, hibis- 
cus, hardy roses, Japan quince, calycanthus, smoke tyeee. 
South of Charleston, S. C. — Camellia, japonica. 
Southern Florida and Texas. — Oleander, privet. 
DISTRICT 3. 
Deciduous trees. — Bur oak, linden, silver maple, Norway maple, cottonwood, 
green ash, box elder, wild cheery, larch, American elm, Catalpa speciosa. 
black walnut, haekberry. 
Evergreen trees. — Scotch pine, Austrian pine, white pine, Norway spruce, 
Colorado blue spruce, white spruce, red cedar, arbor vitae. 
Shrubs. — Lilac, barberry, cornus, Tamarix amurensis, Japan quince, Rosa 
rugosa, crataegus, Elaeagnus hortensis, snowdrop, Shepherdia argentea. 
DISTRICT 4. 
Deciduous trees. — Valley cottonwood (L’opnlus fremontii wizlizcnia) moun- 
tain cottonwood (Populus angustifolia), monuntain ash (Fraxinus velutina), box 
elder (Acer negundo). 
Evergreen trees. — Arbor vitae, Cedrus deodara, box euonymus. 
Shrubs. - Althea, snowball, mock orange, wild rose, crepe myrtle, spiraea, 
flowering currant, elder, lilac. 
DISTRICT o. 
Deciduous trees. — (Coast region). — Large leaved maple, tulip tree, mountain 
ash, European linden, sycamore, weeping willow. 
Shrubs (Coast region). — Roses, weigela, European holly, lilac, laburnum, 
deutzia. Hydrangea paniculata, mock orange, Japan quince. 
Trees (Columbia Basin. — Scotch elm, American elm, Norway maple, Euro- 
pean linden, sycamore, green ash. silver poplar, Russian poplar, white willow. 
Shrubs (Columbia Basin). — Lilac, hardy roses. Philadelphia, Elaeagnus 
hortensis, laburnum, spiraea, Tamarix amurensis, Rosa rugosa, barberry. 
Importation of European Pine Prohibited 
No European pine trees will be permitted to be imported 
into the United States after July 1, a quarantine order to this 
effect having been signed by the Secretary of Agriculture. 
This action has been taken to save American pine trees from 
the pine shoot moth which has long done much damage in 
European forests. This pest has already become established 
in nurseries and parks in some states, but it is believed that by 
pruning and destroying the affected shoots the disease can 
be stamped out if no more infected nursery stock is imported 
into the country. The European pine shoot moth eats out 
the new buds and kills or deforms the young twigs of pine 
trees in such a way that the timber value is seriously and per- 
manently lowered. The moth feeds mostly on young trees 
between 6 and 15 years of age, destroying a large number of 
buds and young shoots and injuring adjoining ones. These 
injured shoots bend downward and outward, afterwards grow- 
ing upward again. When the pest is abundant the trees are 
rendered unsightly and crippled and of no commercial value. 
The moth lays its eggs early in August, singly on the new 
buds of the pine. It is impossible to reach the larva with any 
insecticide after it has once found its winter quarters, and the 
only effective way of combating the pest is to destroy the in- 
fected buds and twigs. Pruning of this kind in the fall and 
winter months will minimize the damage in the spring, but 
it is more difficult to determine the existence of the pest at 
this time than when the injury is further developed. A little 
practice, however, will enable the expert to recognize the trace 
of pitch at the base of the bud covering the entrance hole of 
the larva. 
Editorial Notes 
More than nine million young trees and ten thousand 
pounds of seed were planted on the national forests in 1914. 
At least 25 per cent of the larch timber over large areas in 
eastern Oregon has been killed or weakened by mistletoe, and 
the Forest Service is taking steps to combat the pest. 
Success has followed forest planting on the sandhills of 
Nebraska Jack pines planted there by the Government Forest 
Service ten years ago now have a height of over fifteen feet 
and a diameter of four inches. 
tForbach, Germany, is said to have the most profitable town 
forest known; it yields an annual net gain of $12.14 an acre. 
The State School of I'orestry at Bottineau, N. Dak., an- 
nounces that it will have one million trees for distribution to 
the citizens of the state during 1915. 
To gua'rd against tree repair fakirs or quack tree surgeons, 
the Massachusetts Forestry Association will inspect the shade 
trees belonging to its members free of charge. 
The Sihwald, or city forest of Zurich, Switzerland, adds to 
the town’s revenues $7.20 per acre a year, reducing the amount 
needed to he raised through taxation by more than $32,000. 
