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DECORATIVE AND FLOWERING TREES 
Whether your garden be large or small there is al- 
ways a place for flowering trees. They can be grown with 
equal satisfaction either as individual specimens on the 
lawn or grouped among the shrubs. 
Since few if any of these trees tower to great heights, 
even in maturity, they are indispensable for creating inti- 
mate garden pictures. In the spring, wrapped in a haze of 
soft bloom, they serve to lift the color of perennial borders 
to eye level and above. In the fall, hawthorns, mountain 
ash, and flowering crabapples are brilliant with fruit and 
doubly effective when combined with red chokeberries, 
dogwoods and hardy asters, — 
BIRCH (Betula) 
Graceful trees that rank high in popularity. White-barked types 
have long been associated with evergreens. 
Betula pendula (European white birch) 
A tree of medium growth, white bark and pendulous branches. 
G/Sweritonigh.:..... ea. $1.00 1/1% in. stem........ ea. $2.50 
8/10 ft. high........ ea. 1.50 1%4/2 in. stem........ ea. 3.50 
BRR EE ohn cn ee asec ate hs emote oe en ececinan-ouesesa==e ea. 4.00 
Betula pendula gracilis (Cutleaf weeping birch) 
White bark, finely cut foliage and drooping branches make this 
unsurpassed as a lawn specimen. 
G/ See itanioh: 3)... ea. $1.50 114/2 in. stem ...... ea. $4.00 
8/10 ft. high ..... Gare e2.00 2/2% in. stem ...... ea. 5.00 
1/1% in. stem ......ea. 3.00 12/3 in. stem ...... ea. 7.00 
- FLOWERING CRABAPPLE (Malus) 
For the middle west there is no finer, hardier flowering tree 
than the crabapple. Many varieties exist, each varying some- 
what in shade of bloom and habit of growth. Try pink-flowered 
types with pale lilac tulips and white arabis. 
Malus arnoldiana (Arnold’s crabapple) 
Develops into a magnificent specimen about fifteen feet high. 
A hybrid from the Arnold Arboretum. Flowers pink fading white. 
Fruits yellow in clusters. | 
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