The “Silver Bells” of Halesia tetraptera, from photo 
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HARDY NATIVE DECIDUOUS TREES FOR STREET 
LAWN AND FOREST PLANTING 
ACER rubrum. Scarlet Maple. 40 to 100 ft. Notable in spring for its showy red blossoms and winged 
fruit and in autumn for its brilliant scarlet foliage. 
negundo. Box Elder. 25 to GO ft. Small, handsome tree, with light green twigs and delicate drooping 
clusters of light green /lowers. 
saccharum. Sugar Maple. 70 to 125 ft. Handsome, rapid-growing tree for lawn and street. Fall color¬ 
ing gold and crimson. 
spicatum. Mountain Maple. 15 to 30 ft. Really a tall, elegant shrub, forming clumps with very attractive, 
downy leaves. For groups and wood borders. 
pennsylvanicum. Striped Maple. 20 to 40 ft. An unusually valuable lawn tree, the large foliage taking 
brilliant yellow colorings in late summer. The green- and white-striped bark gives elegant winter effect. 
AESCULUS octandra. Yellow Buckeye. GO to 100 ft. Can be trained as a shrub, the yellow panicled 
/lowers in profusion in June. 
AMELANCHIER botryapium. Shad Bush. 25 to 50 ft. One of the handsomest of the early-flowering 
smaller trees, its racemes of snow-white flowers appearing in profusion in pleasing contrast to the surround¬ 
ings. Fruit edible. 
ASIMINA triloba. Papaw. 30 to 40 ft. Lawn tree of elegant appearance with dark green leaves. Greenish 
yellow flowers in early May. Edible fruit. 
BETULA lonta. Sweet Birch. GO to 80 ft. This is the noted «Cherry Birch” used in cabinet-making. A 
large tree with shining green thick-set foliage. Twigs and bark aromatic, producing "birch oil.” Lawn or 
street. 
lutoa. Yellow Birch. GO to 100 ft. Yellowish silvery bark and thin, finely cut leaves, 
nigra. River, or Red Birch. 50 to 90 ft. Forms a round-topped picturesque head. Branches slender and 
pendulous, the alder-like leaves pule green. Loves banks of ponds and streams, 
papyrlfora. Paper, or Canoe Birch. 50 to 80 ft. The wonderful white bark of this species is strikingly 
beautiful, particularly in winter. An invaluable lawn tree, 
populifolla. Gray Bircii. 20 to 40 ft. Rapid-growing, rather short-lived. Deli¬ 
cate branches and conspicuous gray bark; tremulous foliage. 
CARPINUS caroliniana. Water Beech. 25 to 40 ft. Fine screen or hedge tree, 
bearing pruning well. Loves deep, moist soil, but grows well in dry ground. 
CASTANEA dentata. American Chestnut. GO to 100 ft. Attains noble size and 
becomes an admirable shade tree. Nuts sweetest of all the genus, 
pumila. Chinkapin. 10 to 35 ft. A small tree or more usually a spreading 
shrub, producing sweet, rounded nuts. An elegant undershrub for woodlands. 
CATALPA speclosa. Bean Tree. 40 to GO ft. Bears the most showy flowers, 
probably, of all our native ornamental trees. Large heart-shaped leaves and 
fruit, a long pendent pod hanging till late spring. 
CEL IIS occidontalis. Hackberry. 75 to 125 ft. Rapid-growing, making a hand¬ 
some, round-topped head, though irregular growth. Branches pendulous, the 
whole effect unique. 
CERCIS canadensis. Red Bud. 25 
are out this small tree is literally 
blossoms even to the trunk, producing a surprising and beautiful effect. Fall 
coloring yellow. 
CLADRASTIS lutea. Kentucky Yellow Wood. 35 to 50 ft. One of the rarest 
of native trees, of singular beauty when in flower. Blossoms in long, drooping 
panicles, giving the blooming tree a most distinct and pleasing effect. In 
autumn bright yellow. 
CORNUS altcrnifolia. Swamp Dogwood. 8 to 25 ft. The most picturesque of 
tho family. Shrub or tree; flat-topped and bushy. The horizontal branches 
are disposed in whorls, representing each annual growth, making the plant a 
series of parallel layers of foliage. 
florida. Flowering Dogwood. 20 to 40 ft. This is the glory of the fields and 
woods in early spring, the great white blossoms appearing in extravagant pro¬ 
fusion when the forest aspect is yet wintry. No other flowering tree is so 
effective, and it is being largely planted. The red-tufted berries and the rich 
dark red autumn foliage make it hardly less conspicuous during "frost time.” 
to 50 ft. In early spring before the leaves 
covered with red-purple or pink pea-shaped 
Chinkapin burs 
(Oastanra pumila), a delicious nut 
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