Nursery Grown Native Trees 
Birch, Gray 
One of the most graceful of all trees. The Gray 
Birch is small, seldom attaining a height of over 20 
or 30 feet. When young, its bark is creamy white. 
Grows well on dry slopes and seems to like barren 
soil. It makes a beautiful contrast against a back¬ 
ground of pine or spruce. It ranges naturally along 
the Atlantic coast from Maine through the northern 
part of Virginia. 
Buckeye, Ohio 
This highly decorative and ornamental tree is 
very regular in shape, usually taking the form sug- 
ested by two balls one on top of the other, the 
top one several sizes smaller than the lower one. 
It is a small tree, seldom growing more than 70 feet 
in height. It grows from central Pennsylvania, 
south through Tennessee, westward into Oklahoma, 
north to Nebraska and southern Iowa. 
Cataljpa 
Cataipa 
This low round-headed tree, whose rough-barked 
trunk almost invariably twists somewhat from the 
perpendicular, bears large pyramids of white flow¬ 
ers. Since it is a normally short lived tree, it is 
not considered worth transplanting after it attains 
any size. It is supposed to have been found orig¬ 
inally only along the banks of rivers in a small 
section of Georgia, western Florida, Alabama, and 
Mississippi. 
Cedar, Red 
This pyramidal tree is native on rocky hillsides 
and sandy flats from Maine to central Florida, west 
to central Texas and north to North Dakota. It is 
tremendously valuable for certain landscape effects. 
Transplants readily and grows to a height of 40 to 
50 feet. Its trunk sometimes reaches 3 feet in 
diameter. 
Cherry, Wild Black 
This tall, handsome, erect tree frequently reaches 
a height of 100 feet with a trunk 3 to 5 feet in 
diameter. In recent years, in spite of its natural 
beauty and showy spring blossoms. It has been 
practically banned for landscape purposes because 
it Is such a favorite food plant of the Japanese 
Beetle, the Forest Tent Caterpillar, the Fall Web 
Worm, the Bag Worm, the Brown Tail Moth, and 
the Scurvy Scale. 
Ohio Buckeye 
Red Cedar 
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