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Ornamental and Shade Trees 
Comus florida (White-flowering Dogwood) 
Acer • Maple 
All Maples are good shade trees, and some of the cut-leaved 
forms and those with colored foliage are highly decorative. 
They grow quickly into shapely subjects and are suitable for 
almost any purpose. 
Dasycarpum. The Silver Maple is 80 to 120 feet high when 
mature. It has a clean, straight trunk and dark foliage, silvery 
on the underside, which turns bright golden yellow in Autumn. 
8 to 10 ft., $1.25 each. 10 to 12 ft:, $1.50. 
Dasycarpum Wieri. Wier’s Cutleaf Maple has lacy foliage and 
drooping branches. Suitable for specimen planting. 8 to 10 ft., 
$1.50 each. 10 to 12 ft., $2.50. 
Palmatum atropurpureum. This is a particularly handsome dark 
red form of the Japanese Maple. Really it is a big shrub, and is 
always an object of beauty. 2 to 3 ft., $3.00 each. 
Platanoides. The Norway Maple is one of the most popular 
street trees. It is low-branching and makes a very dense shade. 
6 to 8 ft., $2.00 each. 8 to 10 ft., $2.50. 10 to 12 ft., $3.00. 
Platanoides Schwedleri. Schwedler’s Maple is a majestic tree 
of the Norway Maple type, with brilliantly colored foliage in 
the Spring, rioting through shades of red. 6 to 8 ft., $2.50 each. 
8 to 10 ft., $3.00. 
Saccharum. The Sugar Maple is a useful street and park tree 
because of its upright habit. Under favorable conditions old 
trees are 125 feet high. Its foliage is particularly bright in 
Autumn 6 to 8 ft., $1.50 each. 8 to 10 ft., $2.25. 10 to 
12 ft., $3.00. 
Betula • Birch 
Alba. The European White Birch is a graceful tree about 50 feet 
high, with grayish white bark and drooping branches covered 
with soft, downy foliage. 6 to 8 ft., $1.50 each. 8 to 10 ft., 
$ 2 . 00 . 
Alba pendula laciniata. The Cut-leaved Weeping Birch is very 
graceful, carrying slender, drooping branchlets of fine, lace-like 
foliage. It is an ornamental specimen tree for isolated planting 
only. 6 to 8 ft., $2.50 each. 8 to 10 ft., $3.00. 
Catalpa 
Bungei. The Umbrella Catalpa has a straight trunk, with a 
spreading, umbrella-like top grafted on it about 6 feet from the 
ground, which in time makes a large, dense head. $1.50 each. 
Cercis 
Canadensis. The Judas Tree, or Red-bud, grows about 20 feet 
high, but is always a slender subject, wiry in appearance and 
not very robust. It is valued for the tiny clusters of brilliant 
purple-pink flowers which adorn it in the Spring. $1.00 each. 
Chionanthus 
Virginica. The Fringe Tree is a graceful, shrubby subject with 
innumerable greenish white flowers with long, thread-like 
petals. $1.50 each. 
Cornus 
Florida. The White-flowering Dogwocd is, perhaps, the most 
ornamental native tree of America. Description is scarcely 
needed, for its wide-flung branches and dazzling white flowers 
are familiar to everyone. 3 to 4 ft., $1.50 each. 4 to 5 ft., 
$2.00. 5 to 6 ft., $3.00. 6 to 8 ft., $4.00. 
Florida rubra. The Red Dogwood has lovely pink flowers. 
3 to 4 ft., $3.00 each. 4 to 5 ft., $4.50. 5 to 6 ft., $6.00. 
Crataegus 
Oxyacantha splendens. Paul’s Double Scarlet Thorn is a bright 
red, double-flowering variety of the English Hawthorn. It is 
a large shrub. 3 to 4 ft., $2.00 each. 4 to 5 ft., $2.50. 
Fraxinus 
Americana. The White Ash is a tough, long-enduring tree which 
will rapidly grow to 100 to 120 feet under favorable conditions. 
8 to 10 ft., $1.50 each. 
Halesia 
Tetraptera. Silverbell. A vigorous shrub, or small tree, from the 
Blue Ridge Mountains, with a great profusion of white bell- 
Iike flowers in May. A beautiful plant in bloom, with vividly 
colored foliage in Autumn. 75c each. 
Liriodendron 
Tulipifera. The Yellow Poplar or Tulip Tree is one of the most 
stately and beautiful of the American natives. One of the most 
dignified trees. 8 to 10 ft., $2.50 each. 
Malus • Crab 
The Crab-Apples are exceedingly beautiful Spring-flowering 
trees, equal in all respects to the famous Japanese cherries, and 
provide a much wider range of color. 
Floribunda. The Japanese Crab has bright pink buds in clusters 
and wide-open, single, white flowers. It is a vigorous branching 
tree about 15 feet high. One of the most beautiful of the lot. 
4 to 5 ft., $1.50 each. 
Ioensis fl.-pl. Bechtel’s Flowering Crab is a symmetrical, broad- 
shouldered tree with clusters of drooping pink flowers like 
dainty, semi-double roses. It is not fragrant. 3 to 4 ft., $1.25 
each. 4 to 5 ft., $1.50. 
Sargentii. A rather dwarf, spreading, shrubby tree, with clusters 
of creamy white flowers in great profusion. At times the open¬ 
ing buds and flowers have a faintly yellowish look. 3 to 4 ft., 
$2.00 each. 
Scheideckeri. Scheidecker’s Crab has double, bright pink flowers 
which rapidly fade white and hang on a long time. The waxy 
yellow fruit is produced in great profusion. 3 to 4 ft., $1.50 each. 
Spectabilis. The Chinese Flowering Crab is one of our oldest 
ornamental Crab trees, and grows about 30 feet high, with 
half-single and double flowers of pale pink, followed by pale 
yellow fruits. 4 to 5 ft., $1.50 each. 
Morus 
Alba pendula. Teas’ Weeping Mulberry is a picturesque artificial 
tree for lawn-planting or specimen use. The variety is generally 
grafted on a standard stem, and its branches grow almost 
directly downward. $2.50 each. 
