
Trees jor Shade and Ornamental Purposes 
THEY BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME GROUNDS 
SOME OF THE 
BETTER TREES 
FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES 
For Read, Street and Avenue 
Planting 
Elm, American 
Linden, European 
Maple, Norway 
Maple, Silver 
Maple, Sugar 
Oak, Pin 
Plane, Oriental 
Catalpa, Speciosa 
Cherry, Flowering 
Crab, Bechtel’s 
Crab, Floribunda 
Dogwood 
Laburnum 
Locust, Moss 
Redbud 
Thorn, Paul’s Double Scarlet 
Weeping Trees 
Cherry, Weeping 
Mulberry, Weeping 
Willow, Wisconsin Weeping 
Crab, Flowering 
Windbreak or Screen Purposes 
Poplar, Lombardy Thorn, Flowering 
Trees with Conspicuous Flowers 
Trees with Highly Colored 
Fruit or Berries 
Mountain Ash, European 

Trees for Moist Places 
Ash 
Catalpa 
Elm, American 
Maple, Silver 
Poplars 
Willow 
Trees for Dry Knolls and 
Poor Soil 
Elm, Chinese 
Maple, Silver-Leaf 
Poplars 
Trees with Colored Foliage 
Maple, Schwedler’s 
Plum, Purple Leaf 
This class of plants includes all our well known shade trees—trees which regularly each fall drop their leaves. 
Included also are the small ornamental flowering and fruiting trees of great value in garden work, here grouped 
for convenience. 
ASH - Fraxinus 
(F. americana). Long lasting tree 
Shade and specimen 
American or White 
of reasonably rapid growth. 
tree. 
BIRCH - Betula (Spring Only) 
Canoe (B. papyrifera). Well known native American 
tree with brilliant white bark that ‘’peels’’. 
Cutleaf Weeping (B. alba laciniata). White bark with 
weeping, spray-like branches and deeply cut foliage 
make this an outstanding lawn specimen tree. 
European White (B. alba). A distinctive ornamental 
tree noteworthy for its silvery white bark. Spray-like 
foliage makes it particularly useful as a contrast 
plant with evergreens. 
CATALPA 
Bungei or Umbrella Catalpa (C. bignonioides nana). 
Dense heads of large foliage grafted on standards of 
various heights. The heads are generally cut back 
severely each spring to insure a compact growth. An 
ornamental tree for use as such or as a formal accent 
plant. 
Western Catalpa (C. speciosa). Large, fast growing 
tree with large leaves, white flowers in June followed 
by green fruit pods. Lawn specimen, screen planting, 
or woods planting. 
CHERRIES, FLOWERING - Prunus 
Kwanzan. Double, dark pink flowers. See page 16. 
Weeping (P. subhirtella pendula). A weeping variety 
grafted on standard stems of various heights. Many 
pink flowers in spring. 
CRAB - Malus 
Atrosanguinea. Carmine flowers followed by dark red 
fruit. 
Bechtels (M. ioensis bechteli). Well known ornamental 
tree with large double pink flowers like little roses. 
Eleyi. Small flowering and fruiting tree most valuable 
as lawn specimens and features in border and garden 
planting. Red foliage in spring. Dark pink single 
flowers; showy fruits in fall. 
Floribunda. 
flowers. 
Bright pink flower buds opening to white 
Yellowish fruit in fall. 
Niedzwetzkyana (Red Vein). Purplish red color in 
leaves, stems, bark and buds, with red flowers. 
DOGWOOD - Cornus 
White Flowering (C. florida). Small, upright tree for 
use as specimen, or in conjunction with shrub or 
evergreen plantings. White flowers in spring followed 
in fall by red berries. Attractive foliage color in fall. 
Red or Pink Flowering (C. 
above, but with red flowers. 
florida rubra). Same as 
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