'80,000 Beautiful Elms” 
McKAY’S Stately Shade Trees 
The value of shade trees is appreciated universally. They occupy a position of 
major importance in every landscape plan. Shade trees as an essential permanent 
investment should be selected with the utmost care. For greatest permanency, 
choose the hardwood types, although they grow somewhat more slowly. Of course 
the faster growing soft wood varieties, too, are very desirable and useful, and find 
a distinct place in every landscaping. They may be used more liberally, inter' 
spersed among the hardwood varieties. 
ELM - Ulmus 
Stately Trees of Grace and Beauty 
AMERICAN WHITE ELM (Americana). Lg. 
One of the largely used trees for street plant' 
ing and as a shade tree for lawns and parks. 
It is the most characteristic tree of this re¬ 
gion and one of the most beautiful. They are 
hardy and of rapid growth. 
CHINESE ELM. Lg. A new variety, having 
much smaller leaves than the common Elm. 
Its main features are its extreme hardiness, 
ability to thrive in poor soils and dry loca¬ 
tions, and it is a very rapid grower. 
GRAFTED 
ELMS 
American Elms as grown by 
nature or as grown from seed¬ 
lings in the nursery rows, de¬ 
velop into trees of extreme 
variations. To overcome these 
variations three select types of 
Elms, namely, the "Vase Elm,” 
“Moline Elm,” and “Parkway 
Elm,” have been developed. 
These types are propagated by 
grafting from the parent tree, 
on selected stocks. This insures 
their uniform growth and de¬ 
velopment. By planting a street 
or boulevard with these types 
of Elms you are assured that 
they will develop into trees ab¬ 
solutely uniform in shape and 
size. We recommend them to 
the particular buyer. 
VASE ELM. The vase-shaped Elm 
was named Vase after its character¬ 
istic open top or vase shape of 
branching. The growth is spread¬ 
ing, but still upright, with its top 
much broader than the center. The 
Vase Elm should be used on wide 
streets or where a broad growing 
tree is desired. 
Chinese Elm 
MOLINE ELM. The outstanding characteristic of the Mo¬ 
line- Elm is its conical shape and pyramidal growth. Its 
habit of growth is narrow and upright. It develops very 
heavy and strong branches. The leaves are dark green, 
deeply veined, and nearly twice the size of the ordinary 
Elm leaf. In its young growth the bark is smooth and 
greenish gray in color. Another good feature of this type 
is that it is an unusually fast grower. The Moline Elm 
should be- planted on narrow streets, or where spirelike 
specimen trees are desired on the lawn. 
PARKWAY ELM. Another grafted variety of much merit. 
The Parkway Elm is a hardy, beautiful tree of semi¬ 
spreading habit. Like- the Vase and Moline, a number 
of these trees planted on the boulevard is a sight to 
behold. Its foliage is rugged and a beautiful deep green 
color. It is a rapid grower. 
The Famous 
WASHINGTON 
ELM 
Every school, park and cemetery should 
have at least one of these trees planted on 
its grounds. 
Probably no tree in the world was or will 
ever be more well known and revered than 
the Washington Elm, under whose spread¬ 
ing branches the Father of Our Country took 
command of the first American army. 
The Washington Elm still lives in trees 
that are its true descendants, for the late 
Jackson Dawson, noted horticulturist, graft¬ 
ed a branch of the old tree and saved it for 
posterity. This graft was nurtured by the 
late Mr. T. D. Hatfield and is now a beau¬ 
tiful large tree growing on the grounds of 
the Public Library at Wellesley, Mass. 
In 1925 William Judd of the Arnold Ar¬ 
boretum grafted four scions from this Wash¬ 
ington Elm at Wellesley. These four grafts 
were sent to Harlan P. Kelsey, a noted horti¬ 
culturist, for planting and propagation by 
the late Professor Charles Sprague Sargent, 
director of the Arnold Arboretum, with the 
hope that a wide distribution of direct de¬ 
scendants of the Washington Elm would be 
fostered. One of these trees has since been 
sent back to the Arnold Arboretum. A sec¬ 
ond stands before Washington Hall at Phil- 
lips-Andover Academy in memory of George 
Washington. The other two are growing in 
the Arboretum of Harlan P. Kelsey. From 
this source, in 1931, we secured five 1-year- 
old grafts grown from scions of the famous 
Washington Elm. These valuable little trees 
were carefully planted in our nurseries at 
Waterloo, Wisconsin, where they are now 
growing, and by grafting we have been able 
to develop a number of trees which we guar¬ 
antee to be direct descendants of the famous 
original Washington Elm. These authentic 
descendants of the famous original Wash¬ 
ington Elm are carefully labelled, that pos¬ 
terity may enjoy these living monuments in 
memory of the Father of Our Country. Each 
tree is numbered and accompanied by a 
“certificate of genuineness” signed by the 
President of the McKay Nursery Company. 
