ORNAMENTAL AND WEEPING TREES 
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Catalpa Bungei or Umbrella Tree. Grows five to ten 
feet high. Grafted on stems several feet in height and 
clear of branches, it forms an umbrella-shaped top 
without pruning. Is perfectly hardy and thrives any¬ 
where. Leaves large, glossy, heart-snaped, deep green, 
lying like shingles on a roof. Is essentially a tree for 
formal planting. May be used in pairs, one at either 
side of an entrance. Is also very effective placed at 
intervals in a garden, either in rows or at the corners. 
Is very effective also set ten to twenty feet apart on 
each side of a w’ell-kept driveway. 
Cherry, Japan Flowering. All of the beautiful things 
you have heard about the Japan Flowering Cherry 
will prove true when this bursts forth in the spring 
with a mass of gorgeous flowers. One of the best for a 
lawn specimen. Tree grows to about 30 feet. An up¬ 
right, spreading tree with gray bark and deep bronze- 
green leaves. The flowers, a deep pink or old rose in 
color, are very full and double, often 2 inches across. 
By some considered the most beautiful of the flower¬ 
ing Cherries. 
Cherry, Japanese Weeping Flowering. Grows in 
this country six to ten feet in height. A weeping form 
of the Japanese Spring Cherry. Has slender, pendulous 
branches hanging nearly to the ground. In early May, 
before the leaves appear, the branches are strung thick¬ 
ly with showy single flow^ers, rose-pink in bud, pale- 
pink when fully opened, forming a veritable cascade 
of pink w'hose loveliness no words can adequately de¬ 
scribe. On a green lawn, with a blue sky overhead, 
this tree is a feast of beauty of which the eye can never 
tire, making it one of the most beautiful and dis¬ 
tinctive weeping trees. It is a great favorite in 
Japan. 
Cornus. See Dogwood. 
Crab—Flowering 
This is one of the finest groups of ornamental trees we 
have today. The selection of color, flower, fruit, foliage, 
and habit cannot be compared to any other class of 
trees. Delicate flowers in the spring, followed by at¬ 
tractive foliage, and in the fall, the red, yellow or purple 
fruit. The fruits are attractive to birds. Excellent for 
mass planting, or may be used as specimen trees for a 
lawn, and also give a note of distinction to the shrub¬ 
bery. Ultimate heights vary from 8 to 30 feet, accord¬ 
ing to the variety. Some nurseries list it as a shrub. 
BechteFs, Double Flowering. Ultimate height, ten 
to fifteen feet. A very beautiful small tree, good in 
the lawn or in coarse shrubbery. Has fragrant, double 
pink blossoms in May, resembling small roses, borne 
in great quantities. Shows to perfection against a 
background of green shrubs or vines. The tree is 
round, compact, symmetrical; foliage a dull green. 
Blooms w'hen quite young. 
Oriental Jewel Tree (Malus Floribunda). One of 
the loveliest of all the trees that grow. Mother Na¬ 
ture has lavished all her treasures on this, her favorite 
child. Is hardy, rugged, withstands severe winters. 
Tree is shapely, branching gracefully from the ground. 
Not too large for even the modest home grounds, it 
will also grace the large estate. Its greatest attrac¬ 
tion is its profusion of sparkling and flashing deep 
lasting rose colored flowers that are borne in bewilder¬ 
ing profusion. Small orange fruits appear like nug¬ 
gets of gold in the autumn. 
Purple Leaved (Malus Purpurea). Purple leaves; dark 
pink flowers and dark purple fruit. Grows about 25 ft. 
Cucumber Tree (Magnolia acuminata). It grows 
to a height of from 50 to 90 feet, making a fine, pyra¬ 
midal tree for lawn; is a good park tree. The bark on 
the trunk is dark, the leaves are five to ten inches 
long, thin, dark green above, green beneath and 
slightly downy, growing along the branch. Flowers 
BECHTEL’S DOUBLE FLOWERING CRAB—A rare beauty 
are a bluish or yellowish white, or yellowish green, 
three to six inches in diameter, abundant, fragrant, in 
May and June, follow’ed by the fruit which resembles 
a small cucumber with a slight carmine tint. The 
tree is hardy when established. 
Dogwood 
White Flowering (Cornus Florida). Grows to a 
height of fifteen to twenty-five feet. One of our most 
valuable small ornamental trees. It has beautiful 
white flowers three to three and a half inches in diam¬ 
eter in spring—about the middle of May, varying 
with the locality—before the leaves appear, making it 
a very conspicuous tree in any planting. The flowers 
are abundant, showing double. Foliage, dark green, 
changing to gorgeous reds in autumn. Fruits follow¬ 
ing the blossoms are a brilliant red in the fall and hang 
well into winter. The tree is spreading in habit— 
some of the limbs nearly or quite horizontal; a beau¬ 
tiful tree for the lawn. 
Red Flowering (Cornus florida rubra). Similar to 
the White Flowering but more regular in form and 
averaging not quite so large. Blossoms are rose-pink 
suffused with bright red appearing before the leaves 
in May. 
Bush or Shrub Dogwoods (Cornus). See Hardy 
Shrubs, page 27. 
Elm American. One of the grandest of all American 
trees. Growing to a height of sixty to one hundred 
feet, it is in size and majesty in almost a class by it¬ 
self. It is tall, graceful, wide spreading with outward 
curving and pendulous branches. The huge trunk 
divides at slight angles into two or three arching 
limbs and these again into smaller branches. It is the 
noblest of all trees. Properly placed it is a fine tree for 
shade—restful and graceful and the best of all street 
trees under right conditions. It is not a tree for 
grouping with others, but should stand alone, well 
