SaADE TREES 
ITHOUT some trees, most home grounds have a forlorn and unfinished look. Properly 

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placed shade trees can change an ordinary-looking property into a distinguished one, for they 
can shut out what needs to be hidden and emphasize the good points. Generally speaking, the best 
place for them is to the rear and side of the grounds, where they can frame the house without pre- 
venting light and air from reaching it. Important to remember is the point that shade trees should 
not be dotted around the lawn; a much better place to plant them is around the edges. 
ACER GINNALA. Amur Maple. A popular 
Maple with small, prettily cut leaves open- 
ing early in the spring and turning red in 
the fall. 
A. ORIENTALE (heterophyllum). <A 
dwarf kind only 15 feet tall. Leathery 
leaves about 2 inches long. 
A. PALMATUM. Japanese Red Maple. 
More of a shrub than a tree. Its small, star- 
shaped leaves turn bronzy red in the au- 
tumn. A very picturesque accent plant. 
A. PALMATUM ATROLINEARE. A va- 
riety with dark red leaves divided nearly to 
the base. 
A. PALMATUM ATROPURPUREUM. 
Popular type with deep purple foliage. 
A. PALMATUM, BLOODGOOD. One of 
the best red-leaved Japanese Maples. A 
sturdy grower, holding the pigeon-blood 
color of its leaves well into the fall. 
A. PALMATUM LINEARILOBUM. Very 
deeply cut leaves. 
A. PALMATUM MULTIFIDUM ORNA- 
TUM. Dark red leaves divided to the base 
into five to nine lobes. 
A. PALMATUM MULTIFIDUM ORNA- 
TUM PENDULUM. A weeping form of 
the preceding. 
A. PALMATUM, OSHIO BENT. Purple 
leaves retaining their color all summer. 
A. PALMATUM RETICULATUM. Leaves 
greenish yellow, veined and margined dark 
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ACER PALMATUM SANGUINEUM, 
SEIGEN. Purple Japanese Maple. A choice 
red-leaved Maple of recent importation. 
A. PLATANOIDES. Norway Maple. A 
familiar shade tree planted along miles of 
city streets. It produces a dense head of 
dark green leaves that turn yellow in fall. 
A. PLATANOIDES SCHWEDLERI. 
Schwedler Maple. Foliage purplish crimson 
in spring, becoming darker. 
A. RUBRUM. Red Maple. Vivid scarlet foli- 
age in autumn. Succeeds in ordinary soil. 
A. SACCHARUM. Sugar Maple. A very 
vigorous tree with bright fall coloring of 
orange and red. 
AESCULUS CARNEA (rubicunda). Red 
Horse-chestnut. A fine lawn specimen with 
pink to scarlet flowers standing upright like 
huge candles. 
AX. HIPPOCASTANUM. European Horse- 
chestnut. A stately tree to 70 feet with 
large panicles of white flowers. 
AX. NEGLECTA. Pale yellow flowers veined 
red, on a tree 60 feet tall. 
JE. OCTANDRA. Yellow Buckeye. To 60 
feet, with yellow flowers. 
ALNUS HIRSUTA SIBIRICA. Variety of 
the Manchurian Alder, 60 feet high. 
BETULA NIGRA. River Birch. A graceful, 
slender tree with ragged, reddish brown and 
silvery gray bark. 
B. PAPYRIFERA. Paper-bark Weeping 
Birch. Of all the Birches this has the whit- 
est bark. Beautiful and long lived. 
Live Oak 
BETULA PENDULA (alba). European White 
Birch. Rapid grower; silvery bark, droop- 
ing branches. 
B. PENDULA GRACILIS. Cutleaf Weeping 
Birch. A variety with finely cut foliage. 
B. PENDULA PURPUREA (alba atropur- 
purea). Purple-leaved form of the Euro- 
pean White Birch. 
B. POPULIFOLIA. Gray Birch. Tree to 
30 feet with chalky bark. 
CARPINUS CAROLINIANA. American 
Hornbeam. Bushy tree 30 to 40 feet high. 
Dark bluish green foliage changing to scar- 
let-yellow. 
CASTANOPSIS CUSPIDATA. Japanese 
Evergreen Oak. An ornamental evergreen 
tree resembling the chestnut. 
CELTIS OCCIDENTALIS. Hackberry. A 
native tree growing 100 feet tall, with bright 
green leaves turning lighter in autumn. 
Orange-red fruit. 
CERCIDIPH YLLUM JAPONICUM. Kat- 
sura-tree. A pyramidal tree with heart- 
shaped foliage, purplish in spring and light 
green in summer. 
CLADRASTIS LUTEA. Yellow-wood. Deli- 
cately fragrant, pea-shaped, white flowers in 
clusters. A hardy, symmetrical tree 50 feet 
tall. 
FAGUS SYLVATICA. European Beech. 
Makes a good hedge or windbreak. Glossy 
dark foliage, turning reddish in the fall and 
lasting most of the winter. 
F. SYLVATICA ATROPUNICEA. Purple 
Beech. Popular ornamental type. 

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