BRAND PEONY FARMS, Inc 
The Chinese Elm 
Ch inese Elm 
Seedling Windbreak Stock 
Tliis Stock is Prepaid 
50 100 500 1000 
6-12 in.$1.50 $2.45 $11.60 $21.00 
12-18 in. 1.95 3.50 15.85 29.50 
18-24 in. 2.50 4.25 18.65 34.00 
Chinese Elm. 
i-year Chinese Elm. 
18- to 24-inch top, 
4-foot .foot. 
Our stock of trees of Chi¬ 
nese Elm are from strains 
grown in this country tracing 
directly to the wild Chinese 
Elm Native Strains found 
growing in extreme northern 
China and southern Siberia, 
the hardiest strain obtainable. 
We are offering this year 
Chinese Elm for both orna¬ 
mental and windbreak pur¬ 
poses. 
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 location the better it seems to grow. 
Note the picture of the little tree dug in our nursery, in the fall of 19 32, 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 4 feet long. No wonder the trees do so well in the dryer states. 
It makes a very graceful ornamen¬ 
tal tree for planting in the yard, it 
is good as a street tree planted along 
the boulevard. 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 plant¬ 
ing 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 planting for windbreaks. 
Many of the fine artificial groves 
planted about the farmsteads 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 en¬ 
tirely disappeared. It seems fortu¬ 
nate that just at this time when 
such a tree is so sadly needed, 
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 an<| 
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 quanti¬ 
ties, and that within a few 
years every farm in this terri¬ 
tory whose owner loves trees, 
will support a beautiful Chi¬ 
nese Elm windbreak about its 
buildings. 
Chinese 
C 1 ■■ Select Ornamental 
t,m Tree, 
Per 
Per 
Each Pair 10 
100 
2 to 3 ft. 
.$0.30 $0.50 $2.45 
$15.00 
5 to 6 ft. 
.60 1.10 5.00 
45.00 
6 to 8 ft. 
.75 1.35 6.50 
60.00 
Extra Select 
Each Pair 
Per 10 
1—arn ^ 
5 to 6 ft. ..$0.75 $1.25 
$6.00 
6 to 8 ft. .. 1.00 1.75 
8.00 
Specimen 1 ree 
By express collect. 
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