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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
THE BEST TREES FOR CITY STREETS 
We are indebted to “The American City” for the following interesting table. It was compiled with the assistance of the 
foresters of the cities named in the table. Each forester was given six votes with the result as given in the table: 
Norway Maple 
(Acer plalanoides) 
American Elm 
(Ulmus Americana) 
Red Oak 
(Quercus rubra, or 
Quercus coccinea) 
Oriental Plane (or 
European Sycamore) 
(Platanus orientalis) 
European Linden 
(Tilia Europcea) 
Cleveland (i) 
Ha.st Orange (2) 
Brooklyn (2) 
Crand Rapids (2) 
vSt. Louis (3) 
Buffalo {3) 
West Newton (3) 
Chicago (4) 
Washington (5) 
Washington (i). 
West Newton (1) 
Buffalo (i)- 
Chieago (i) 
Crand Rapids (4) 
New Orleans (4) 
East Orange (6) 
Brooklyn (3) 
Washington (4) 
St. Louis (3) 
Buffalo (5) 
Chicago (6) 
Crand Rapids (6) 
East Orange (i) 
Brooklyn (i) 
vSt. Louis (I) 
Washington (2) 
Cleveland (4) 
Buffalo (4) 
East Orange (4) 
Brooklyn (6) 
American Linden 
(Tilia A mericana) 
American Sycamore 
(Platanus occi- 
dentalis) 
Pin Oak 
(Quercus palustris) 
Chicago (3) 
Scotch Elm 
(Ulmus cam.pestris) 
New Orleans (3) 
Chicago (5) 
Ginkgo 
(Ginkgo hiloba) 
Sugar Maple 
(or Rock Maple) 
(Acer sacchariim) 
East Orange (3) 
Washington (3) 
St. Louis (4) 
Buffalo (6) 
Cleveland (6) 
Buffalo (2) 
Cleveland (3) 
Brooklyn (4) 
White Ash 
(Fraxinus americana) 
Brooklyn (5) 
West Newton (6) 
Chicago (2) 
West Newton (3) 
Hardy Catalpa 
(Catalpa speciosa) 
Crand Rapids (i) 
Cleveland (2) 
West Newton (2) 
East Orange (5) 
Washington (6) 
Camphor 
(Officinalis -camphoru) 
Live Oak 
(Quercus virgin ia n a ) 
Water Oak 
(Quercus nigra) 
West Newton (4) 
Cleveland (5) 
New Orleans (5) 
New Orleans (i) 
New Orleans (2) 
Red Maple 
(Acer ruhrtim) 
Soft Maple 
(Acer saccharitium) 
White Oak 
(Quercus alba) 
Paper Mulberry 
(Broussonetia 
papyrifera) 
Ligustrum (or Privit) 
(Ligustrum 
Japonicum) 
Crand Rapids (3) 
St.,Louis (2) 
. Crand Rapids (5) 
St. Louis (6) 
New Orleans (6) 
Order of choice shown by figures in parentheses 
APPOINTMENT OF TEMPORARY TREASURER 
With the approval of the officers and the Executive 
Committee of the American Association of Nurserymen, 
President Thomas B. Meehan has appointed Charles J. 
Maloy, Rochester, N. Y., as temporary Treasurer, to fill 
the unexpired term of the late Treasurer, Charles L. Yates. 
TO ENCOURAGE THE HOME ORCHARD 
The Indiana Apple Show Commission is trying to encour¬ 
age the preservation of the home orchards by appropriating 
$150.00 to be given in premiums. President E. R. Smith 
says, “Too many of our modern Apple Shows cater solely to 
the commercial grower.” 
Conard & Jones Co., are increasing their cold storage 
facilities considerably; the new work being done in concrete, 
an extension of the present system. 
Their greenhouse system is also being enlarged by the 
addition of two new glass houses 120' x 19' each. A 60,000 
gallon cistern with a 4,000-gallon pressure tank is also being 
installed, Morse & Fairbanks pump and engines being 
used. 
WEDDING BELLS 
Announcement is made of the marriage of William Flemer 
Foulke to Miss Emily Humm on Tuesday, September loth. 
They will reside at Atiburndale, Flushing, L. I. The 
National Nurseryman extends congratulations. 
WHAT WALNUTS TO PLANT 
Because of the blight that is killing all the Chestnut trees in the coun¬ 
try, or on its way to do it, the owners of .such trees in the districts which 
the fungus has already entered are cutting down all the perfect trees as 
well as the infected ones, feeling sure nothing will save them, and realiz¬ 
ing that the timber from them is of more value now than after they 
become di,sease stricken. 
As it appears probable -that the commissions appointed to investigate 
the cause and cure of the disease will be unable to tell us more than we 
already know, viz., that a fungus is the cause of it, and all practical 
horticulturists know that fungicides are the remedy, it remains for 
experiments to prove how and when -to u.se these preventives. In the 
meantime the trees are dying all around us, and between one thing and 
another it looks probable that the Chestnut tree will soon be a thing of 
the past. 
What best to take the place of the Chestnut is worth considering. 
Nuts are always in demand, and the probability is that there will be a 
great demand for the nuts of the European species, Castanea vesca, 
which, while not nearly of the good quality of the American, will be 
better than none at all. 
There will probably be a better call for Walnuts as well as for 
Shel'lbarks. Of walnuts, the two best ones are the European, Juglans 
regia, and the native one, J. nigra. The Butternut has flesh of good 
quality but there is so little of it that only a hungry boy will crack them 
to get at their meat. There are two Japanese ones, J. Sieboldiana and J. 
cordiforme, neither of which is worth planting for its nuts, whatever the 
value of the timber may be. 
. No Walnut has ever equaled the European in quality of nut, and this 
tree is quite hardy from Pennsylvania southward and eastward along the 
coast to Connecticut. The black Walnut is a well known hardy tree, 
well di.stributed throughout the country in its wild state.— Florists' 
Exchange. 
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