CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 
LEESLEY BROTHERS :: 
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of white flowers in June and follows with bunches of round, winged 
seeds that hang on all winter. A very good tree for mass planting. 
3 feet.50c. 
turns to pinkish white when the flower opens. This is one of 
best early flowering trees and is fine planted in masses. 
3 to 4 feet.75c. 4 to 5 feet.$1.00 
PYRUS: FLOWERING APPLE 
Pyrus angustifolia. (Bechtel’s Double Flowering Crab), 
15 feet. 
A low bushy tree with stiff thorny branches. Leaves lance- 
oblong and half evergreen. The large double pink blossoms borne 
profusely. 1 his is very hardy and should be used more generally 
for its beautiful colored flowers give good effects. 
2 to 3 feet, 50c. 3 to 4 feet, $1.00. 5 to 6 feet, $2.00. 
Pyrus floribunda (Flowering Crab). 
A shrub or small tree of rugged growth, and many times quite 
thorny, it has beautiful light green leaves and dark green bark. 
The flowers come in early May, of a reddish tinge to the bud which 
TWENTY GOOD LAWN 
TREES 
White-flowering Chestnut 
Globe-headed Catalpa 
Schwedler’s Maple 
Wierz Cut-leaved Maple 
American Elm 
Norway Maple 
Red Maple 
Double Scarlet Thorn 
Bechtel’s Flowering Crab 
Camperdown Elm 
Catalpa 
Sycamore 
Red-Bud or Judas Tree 
Cut-leaved Weeping Birch 
Silver Maple 
White Birch 
Paper or Canoe Birch 
Bird Cherry 
Purple-leaved Plum 
Box Elder 
