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A. pseudo platanus (European Sycamore Maple). A handsome tree, of rapid 
growth, upright, large foliage, and smooth, gray-colored bark. 50 and 75 cents each. 
A. rubrum (Red Maple). The first tree to put on fall color. A beautiful tree at all 
$1.00 to $2.00 each. 
A. saccharinum (Sugar Maple). Vigorous growth ; fall color magnificent; one of the 
best street trees. In every way an excellent ornamental tree. 50 cents to $1.50 each. 
A. Tartaricum ginala (Tartarian Maple). From Tartary. Shrub growth, with 
deeply notched leaves, which become most beautifully colored in the fall. $1.00 each. 
■^Esculus hippocastanum (European or White-flowering Horse Chestnut). 
This well-known species forms a large-sized tree, of handsome, regular outline ; is very 
hardy and free from all diseases; in May it is covered with magnificent erect spikes or 
panicles of white flowers, lightly marked with red ; as a lawn tree or for the street it 
has no superior. 75 cents to $1.50 each, 
flora alba plena (Double White-flowering Horse Chestnut). A superb 
variety, with double flowers in larger panicles than the common sort and of fine, pyramidal 
habit; the absence of fruit, by which much litter is avoided, is an important argument 
in favor of its use ; it is one of the best ornamental trees. $1.00 each. 
uE. rubicunda (Red-flowering Horse Chestnut). One of the finest trees in culti¬ 
vation ; form round ; flowers showy red ; blooms a little later than the white, and the 
leaves are of a deeper green ; one of the most valuable ornamental trees, being of 
handsome, compact growth. $1.00 each. 
Aralia Spinosa (Angelica Tree). A native low-growing tree, with beautiful foliage 
and immense panicles of white flowers on very thorny stems. 75 cents each. 
BETULA (BIRCH). Their graceful port, silvery bark, slender branches, and light 
foliage render them general favorites as single specimens on the lawn or employed as an 
avenue tree. They thrive even in the poorest soils and in the most exposed situations. 
Betula alba (European White Weeping Birch). A graceful tree, with silvery 
bark and slender branches; quite erect w T hen 
young, but after four or five years’ growth 
assumes an elegant drooping habit, rendering 
the tree very effective. 50 cents to $2.00 each. 
B. alba laciniata pendula (Weeping Cut¬ 
leaved Birch). One of the most popular 
and worthy lawn trees. A strictly upright 
growth of the leader, yet the side branches are 
so slim as to droop in a most picturesque 
manner. The foliage is deeply cut and very 
effective. The bark, when the tree becomes 
about eight feet high, commences to peel, and 
finally becomes of the purest silvery white. 
$1.00 each. 
B. populifolia (American White Birch). 
A common native, possessing excellent pictur¬ 
esque qualities. $1.00 to $1.50 each. 
B. papyracea (Paper or Canoe Birch). Of 
vigorous, upright habit of growth, with broad 
foliage and pure white bark when the tree is 
four inches or more in diameter. A tree of first 
class ornamental character and adapted to lawn 
or park. 75 cents each. 
Six trees of one variety for the price of five; twelve trees for the price of ten. 
