HOLLISTER: HURRICANE DAMAGE AND BETTER TREES 
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Sweet Gum?. 
European Planetree. 
Scarlet Oak. 
Bur Oak?. 
Pin Oak. 
Red Oak. 
Little leaf European Linden 
European Linden. 
American Elm. 
Moline Elm... 
English Elm.. 
Liquidamber styraciflua 
Platanus orientalis 
Quercus coccinea 
Quercus macrocar pa 
Quercus palustris 
Quercus rubra 
Tilia cor data 
Tilia vulgaris 
Ulmus americana 
Ulmus americana var . Moline 
Ulmus campestris 
Many ornamental plantings have been destroyed or badly damaged 
and we are obliged to do a great deal of replanting. So far as my 
department is concerned we shall replace, mostly, with the same kind 
of trees that were destroyed. White pine and hemlock of which we had 
a great many were most damaged by uprooting. In many places pines 
were broken off. In a planting of specimen evergreens of some twenty 
varieties and species ranging from eight to forty feet in height, about the 
only trees not damaged were two tall Cryptomeria lobbi and some of the 
smaller Chamaecyparis. The rarest and best specimen of blue spruces, 
Picea pungens var. violaceae , about fifty feet high, was broken off about 
twenty feet from the ground. This is the only kind of which we lost the 
only specimen. 
Fortunately, a nurseryman friend had propagated cuttings from this 
tree and has given us two small ones. 
There are about 150 native and exotic species and varieties of trees in 
our parks and most of these are desirable for ornamental planting. 
Following is a list of trees desirable for ornamental planting or speci¬ 
mens: 
There are at least ten different oaks that we can grow well in this 
section; among the best for ornamental planting are: 
oaks: 
White Oak. 
Bur Oak. 
Red Oak. 
Pin Oak. 
Turkey Oak. 
maples: 
Sugar Maple. 
Norway Maple. 
Red Maple. 
Sycamore Maple. 
Silver or White Maple 
Quercus alba 
Quercus macrocarpa 
, Quercus ruba 
. Quercus palustris 
. Quercus cerris 
.Acer saccharum 
.Acer platanoides 
.Acer rubra 
.Acer pseudo-platanus 
.Acer dasycarpum 
