BRAND PEONY FARMS, Inc. 
The Chinese Elm 
ear Chinese 
to 24 inch 
4-foot root 
Ch inese 
Elm 
Select Ornamental 
Trees All 
Transplanted Stock 
Each 
10 
50 
100 
3-4 ft.. . . 
$2.25 
$10.00 
$17.50 
4-5 ft. . .. 
2.75 
12.00 
18.50 
5-6 ft. ......... 
3.75 
16.00 
30.00 
6-8 ft. ......... 
.... .50 
4.50 
22.00 
6-8 ft. Heavy 
. . . . .75 
7.00 
8-10 ft. Heavy 
_ 1.00 
9.00 
10-12 ft. Heavy . . 
. . .. 1.50 
12.50 
Elm. 
top. 
The Chinese Elm is the most popular and unusual tree that has ever been introduced into America 
from foreign lands. From seed brought in a few years ago from the barren lands of far Northern 
China, the tree has gained rapidly in public favor such as has been shown to no other tree and is 
now scattered clear across the northern part of the country and over the entire dry western part. 
The tree is an Elm with almost the graceful habits of the Cut'Leaf Birch. It has the true elm leaf 
only the leaf is comparatively small, of a light green color and very graceful. It comes into leaf very 
early and the effect is most refined and pleasing all summer when the tree is in full leaf. 
The tree seems to be adapted to almost any part of the country and is especially adapted to the 
more arid parts. It is a tree that sends its roots down deep in search of water and the drier the loca' 
tion the better it seems to grow. 
Note the picture of the little tree dug in our nursery this fall showing the long root system. This 
little tree is from seed planted in the spring of 1932. The tree is an 18 to 24 inch tree. The root is 
over four feet long. No wonder the trees do so well in the dryer states. 
It makes a very graceful ornamental 
tree for planting in the yard, it is good 
as a street tree planted along the boule' 
vard. One does not have to wait for 
results years after it is planted for it 
grows as rapidly as any Poplar or the 
Box Elder and within four or five years 
after planting one has a good sized 
tree twenty to thirty feet high. 
Because of its rapid growth and the 
fact that it limbs out heavily from the 
bottom it makes a great tree for plant' 
ing for windbreaks. Many of the fine 
artificial groves planted about the farm' 
steads of the entire middle northwest, 
because of age and the severe droughts 
of the last few years, are in sad shape. 
In the dryer regions they have entirely 
disappeared. It seems fortunate that 
just at this time when such a tree is so 
sadly needed, that the Chinese Elm has 
come to us. It is evidently the answer 
to the long search for a tree to use for 
windbreak purposes on the prairies of 
western Minnesota, of North and South 
Dakota, in Western Iowa, parts of 
Nebraska and over eastern Colorado, 
Wyoming and Montana. The chances 
are that these states will take advantage 
of this wonderful drought resisting 
tree, plant it in great quantities, 
and that within a few years 
every farm in this territory whose 
owner loves trees, will support a 
beautiful Chinese Elm windbreak 
about its buildings. 
Our stock of trees of Chinese 
Elm are from strains grown in 
this country tracing directly to 
the wild Chinese Elm Native 
Strains found growing in ex' 
treme northern China and south' 
ern Siberia, the hardiest strain 
obtainable. 
We are offering this year 
Chinese Elm for both orna' 
mental and windbreak purposes. 
Chinese Elm 
Seedling Windbreak Stock 
Notice—This Stock is Prepaid. 
50 100 500 1000 
6-12 in.$0.95 $1.65 $ 8.00 $14.00 
12-18 in. 1.35 2.00 10.00 18.50 
18-24 in. 1.75 3.00 14.50 28.00 
Chinese Elm. 
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