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CELTIS: Nettle Tree— Continued 
C. occidental is. AMERICAN NETTLE TREE or 
11A CK BERRY. 120 ft. Makes larger tree than 
above, with smaller foliage. Branches numerous 
and spread horizontally. Berries orange red. 
CERCIS: Judas Tree 
Small trees bearing innumerable small, pea- 
shaped flowers before leaves appear. Pods remain 
all summer, adding to picturesque appearance. 
C. sil iquastrum. EUROPEAN JUDAS TREE. 
40 ft. Very beautiful in spring when covered with 
a mass of purplish rose flowers. 
C. siliquastrum alba. WHITE-FLOWERING 
JUDAS TREE. 30 ft. Variety of preceding with 
pure white flowers. 
CLADRASTIS 
C. tinctoria (Virgllia lutea). YELLOW WOOD. 
S. E. United States. 50 ft. A fine tree with com¬ 
pact, broadly rounded head; leaves pinnate, light, 
pleasing green. Flowers like pea blossoms, white 
and fragrant borne very profusely in long racemes 
in June. 
CRATAEGUS: Thorn; Hawthorn 
Among the most showy of the smaller decidu¬ 
ous trees. They bloom freely in spring and most 
kinds bear highly ornamental berries in fall. 
C. cordata. WASHINGTON THORN. Eastern 
United States. 30 ft. Easily one of our handsom¬ 
est small trees. Leaves are triangular, lobed. deep 
glossy green, holding their color until very late in 
the fall, when they assume beautiful red and yel¬ 
low tints. Flowers are white and borne late in 
spring, followed by large clusters of small, glossy, 
intensely red berries. 
C. crus-galli. COCKSPUR. Eastern United 
States. 40 ft. Small, thorny tree, but very deco¬ 
rative. Bloom handsome. Fruit showy red, re¬ 
maining on tree most of the winter. 
C. monogyna pauli. PAUL’S DOUBLE SCAR¬ 
LET THORN. Small tree, but larger than the 
others and of very erect, quick growth. Flowers 
produced in great profusion in early summer, bright 
carmine and double. Berries large, dull red and 
borne freely. Very fine. 
C. monogyna stricta. PYRAMIDAL THORN. 
Of handsome pyramidal habit with fine foliage. A 
good grower. Flowers white. 
C. nigra. Europe. 25 ft. Small tree with 
downy, lobed leaves. Flowers white, becoming 
slightly red. Berries black. This is not the 
Blackthorn, for which see Prunus spinosa in De¬ 
ciduous Shrubs. 
C. oxyacantha. ENGLISH HAWTHORN. Europe. 
15 ft. Small tree or shrub with spreading branches 
and stout spines. Very fragrant, single, white 
flowers produced freely. Berries scarlet. The cele¬ 
brated English hedge plant. 
C. oxyacantha flore pleno. DOUBLE WHITE 
HAWTHORN. A double-flowering form of the 
foregoing. Flowers usually become nearly pink 
before falling. 
C. rubra splendens. Trees of spreading habit 
with single, bright red flowers. Bloom is very 
profuse, followed by a heavy crop of red berries. 
Probably a variety of C. oxyacantha. 
C. tomentosa. Eastern United States. 20 ft. 
Small tree with few or no thorns. Leaves downy. 
Flowers single white. Fruit is very showy, blood 
red. 
DIOSPYROS: Persimmon 
D. lotus. China. 40 ft. Handsome round-headed 
tree with dark, glossy green leaves four or five 
inches long. Bears very small fruit about half an 
inch in diameter, brown becoming black. Edible 
and very sweet when fully ripe. 
FAGUS: Beech 
Noble, long-lived trees of imposing yet grace¬ 
ful appearance. Bark smooth, branches spread¬ 
ing. The small nuts are edible. 
F. sylvatica. EUROPEAN BEECH. 80 ft. A 
magnificent tree of rather slow growth. Branch- 
lets and twigs very slender. Leaves often remain 
Laburnum vulgare. Golden Chain 
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on inner part of tree through the second year after 
turning brown in the fall. 
F. sylvatica heterophylla. CUT-LEAVED 
BEECH. A variety with deeply cut, fern-like 
leaves. Very graceful and handsome. Rare. 
F. sylvatica purpurea. PURPLE-LEAVED 
BEECH; COPPER BEECH. Probably the finest 
of the purple-leaved trees. Growth slow and com¬ 
pact. Foliage glossy, at first purplish crimson, 
changing to deep, lustrous purple. Color retained 
through the season. 
FRAXINUS: Ash 
Trees of upright growth. Leaves pinnate. The 
following two species make excellent street trees. 
F. americana. AMERICAN WHITE ASH. 120 
ft. Tall tree of rapid growth, with straight, clean 
trunk and broad, rounded head. 
F. excelsior. EUROPEAN ASH. Europe; Asia. 
120 ft. Similar to above, leaves more divided, buds 
black. Foliage darker. 
GINKGO : Maiden Hair Tree 
G. biloba (Salisburia adiantifolia). 60 ft. One of 
the most remarkable trees in cultivation. Allied 
to the conifers and has the regular outline of a fir. 
Leaves are fan-shaped, clear green during summer 
and changing to a clear, soft yellow in the fall. 
Apparently extinct except in cultivation. Has been 
preserved from antiquity in grounds about the tem¬ 
ples of China and Japan. 
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