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The Elm City Nursery Co., New Haven, Conn. 
DECIDUOUS TREES. 
QUERCUS PEDUNCULATA (English Oak). 
Lives to great age and is a noble tree. 
QUERCUS PEDUNCULATA VAR. CONCORDIA. 
The golden oak of gardens, really one of the best yellow- 
foliaged trees. 
QUERCUS PEDUNCULATA VAR. FASTIGIATA. 
This form of the English oaK is quite pyramidal and 
makes a striking form in contrast with other foliage. 
QUERCUS PRINUS (Chestnut Oak). 
QUERCUS RUBRA (Red Oak). 
One of our native oaks of fine proportions, producing 
brilliant colored foliage in the fall. 
RED BUD, see Cercis. 
ROB1NA PSEU'DACACIA (Locust Acacia). 
Very rapid-growing tree with attractive pea-green foli¬ 
age and showy racemes of fragran wistaria-like flowers. 
ROBiNA PSEUDACAC1A VAR. BESSONIANA. 
A form of the above free from thorns. 
ROBINA HISPIDA (Rose Acacia). 
Shrub-like branches, leaf stalk covered with red bristly 
hairs, flowers rose-pink in racemes. 
ROSE, Choice Hardy, see pages 54-58. 
ROSE ACACIA, see Robina. 
SALISBUR1A, see Ginkgo. 
SALIX BABYLONICA (Weeping Willow). .Specimens, 15 to 25 feet, $2.00 to 
The well-known weeping willow is useful in many 12 to 15 feet, 
places, its long drooping branches creating a pronounced 10 to 12 feet! 
effect. 8 to 10 feet. 
SALIX ELEGANTIS'SIMA (Thurlow’s Willow). 6 to 7 feet. 
A very beautiful willow, similar to Babylonica but 4 to 6 feet! 
somewhat more upright and consideied more hardy. 
SALIX M7UTABILIS (Japan Pussy Willow) . 3 to 4 feet. 
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SALIX PENTANDRA (Laurel Willow) 
Upright in habit with polished foliage. It forms 
striking medium-sized tree. Thrives well at the shore. 
SALIX S1EBOLD1ANA (Japan Willow).Specimens, 9to 12 feet, $2.00 to 
Under this name we offer a very graceful slender- 7 to 9 feet, 
branched shrub-like willow, with sage-green foliage and 5 to 7 feet! 
an abundance of "pussies” very early in the spring. 
SALIX VITELLINA VAR. Al'REA.Specimens, 15 to 20 feet, $2.00 to 
Very rapid-growing willow which reaches a large size, 12 to 15 feet, 
the twigs are bright golden and foliage a pleasing silvery 10 to 12 feet! 
green. 
SALIX VITELLINA VAR. BRITZENSIS. .Specimens, 12 to 15 feet, $2.00 to 
A form of the above with deep red bark in the winter 10 to 12 feet 
season contrasting effectively with the golden form when 
they are planted in company. These two willows are 
often planted in groups, and by a severe annual pruning 
in the spring an abundant growth of new branches are 
formed which give very brilliant Winter effects. 
SNOW-DROP TREE, see Halesia. 
SOPHORA JAPONICA (Pagoda Tree). 
Medium-sized tree of graceful habit, bark a peculiar 
deep sea green, foliage of lighter shade, blooms freely in 
large terminal clusters of a creamy white in August. 
SOPHORA JAPONICA PENDULA, Specimens grafted, 6 to 8 feet,$3.00 to 
SORBL'S AUCUPARIA (European Mt. Ash). 10 to 12 feet. 
Well-known tree producing clusters of white flowers in 8 to 10 feet' 
May and June followed by brilliant red berries in the 
1-all. Very hardy and will endure great exposure. 
STUARTIA PENTAGYNA, see Deciduous Shrubs. 
SWEET-GUM, see Liquidambar. 
SYCAMORE, see Platanus. 
TAXODUM DISTICHUM (Bald Cypress). .Specimens, 10 to 12 feet, $1.50 to 
The cypress of the South, perfectly hardy here at the 8 to 10 feet. 
_ thrives in swampy land as well as in garden soil. 6 to 8 feet, 
THORNS, see Crataegus and Pyracantha. 
TILIA AMERICANA (American Linden) . 12 to 14 feet. 
Basswood, shapely trees with large handsome foliage. 10 to 12 feet. 
_ T ,An the lindens listed are desirable avenue trees. 8 to 10 feet. 
TILIA PETIOLARIS (Eu. Silver Linden) . 8 to 10 feet, 
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Elegant species with a silvery white effect of leaf and 
branch. A noble tree. 
TILIA PETIOLARIS VAR. PENDULA. 
A form of the above with slightly drooping branches. 
TILIA DASYSTYLA (Crimean Linden). 
Shapely habit, heart-shaped glossy-green 
smooth reddish-yellow bark. This linden is 
finest trees for a lawn or street tree 
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TILIA PLATYPHYLLOS (European Lime). 10 to 12 feet. 
Broad-leaved linden or lime of Europe. 
6 to 8 feet. 
5 to 6 feet. 
4 to 6 feet. 
A VULGARIS (European small leaf Lime) . 
TULIP TREE, see Liriodendron. 
TUPELO, see Nyssa. 
ULMUS AMERICANA (White Elm). Specimens, 15 to 30 feet, $3.00 to 
Too well-known to need description. We believe the 12 to 15 feet, 
beetle which has been destructive to the foliage in the 10 to 12 feet 
East will not continue to be a serious pest; in fact, it has 8 to 10 feet, 
disappeared in some sections where it was a few years 6 to 8 feet, 
ago very abundant. No other tree forms such fine ave¬ 
nues and its free use for this purpose should be encour¬ 
aged. 
ULMUS SCABRA VAR. PENDULA. ... Specimens, 6 to 7 feet, $1.50 to 
WALNUT, see Tuglans. 
WILLOW, see Salix. 
XANTHOXYLUM AMEPICANUM (Prickly Ash). 4 to 6 feet. 
YELLOW WOOD, see Cladrastis. 
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