Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-03-02
TREES FOR GARDENS.
THE CssT VARIETIES And How 10
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What trees ta plant aul hnN Go ar
ram, them Ia the garden d.ng'rU u..Hn
It's size. lnraiiun aui cuv.ru"ug"; and
our own taste. Don't plant l- trgS
IN small yards and don't d1 ,,n lJnrS
~ over Inc surface # the grounds. no
matter be- they large or small And. a.
we cannot accommodate in Garden
Of ordinary city or suburban sia" amy
thing like the fun number of kinds of
trees available for this purpose. we
must make selection 20 sat our own
taste and Ia cover the period q! the
year when we wish L. have oar places
look prctticSt. Among con4p.cuouSly
Powered large trees we may have bios
SONS from March. when the red ma.
pies bloom. till August. when the ia
pan Srphora is covered with its Whitlsh
panic!,S. and between these horse
chestnut. bird cherry. yelioWwood, ca
talpa. paulownia, etc, ana any number
of subjects. as redbud, GuGWOud duu-
Bile lowered peach. crabs, koclrcutcria,
swamp magnolia and others among
lesser trees and these supplemented
with an underground or Lelting or
masses of shrubs from the golden for
Sythias of earliest spring to Japan by
dramgca ana witch hazel of late sum
mer and ltll give us blossoms a-plrnty
all the season through.
Among the larger trees having pretty
flowers are the red maple, horse chest
nut, bird cherry, yellowwood, tulip
tree. locust, Catalpa, pauloWnta, lin
dens and sophora. The red maple bios
SONS long before the leaves appear
and at the time is quite conspicuous
in the landscape. 1t also makes a
broad headed, handsome shade tree,
and its leaf coloring in fall is unsm-
passed in intensity. 1t may be grown
strictly as shade tree, and this way
only we would advise its use in small
gardens
For q big shade tree the common
horse chestnut answers admirably, and
it is easy to transplant and grows well
in smoky cities. There are double
white ana double red towering forms
of it, ana they grow quite freely and
last longer in bloom than the single or
common one. There is also Il red single
Powered kind known rs ruhicun.Ia,
which is pretty and blooms early The
common bird cherry makes pretty
tree and will grow most anywhere, Lut
some folks object to its "Will' appear
arCe. The European species blooms
earlier than ours and is more SNOWY
in flower, hut withal is a poorer tree,
and it is smaller and suckers badly,
The yplloWWuod, after it is 10 years
old, bears great, dropping paucIcS Of
white, fragrant pea flowers and is
very beautiful. but it needs good
ground and shelter from winds. 1t is
1
of the noblrSt of all trees, bears green
iSh and yellow tulip shaped blossoms
in early summer but Notwithstanding
their size and abundance, because OF
their grrensh color, they don't make
much show as flowers. OF the catHNIS
the one known as speciosa is the hardi-
est and has the largest, Whitcst aul
most SNOWY blossoms. and it blooms
two weeks ahead of the commUurr
kind.
The lindcns are strictly shade ard
lawn trees but are worth a place
among those grown for their flowers,
because these are borne in such great
prOfusion in summer after most other
trees have past their Towering time.
The common locust is very sweet when
it is in bloom, but the tree becomes SO
infested with borers, hence full of dead
tWigS and branches, that We do not
care to plant it in our garden.
Among smaller trees we lave the
large lcaved mot the evergreen one; it
isn't hardy magnolias from tie south
and the swamp magnOlias Of our At
lantic scaboard. The naked branches
of the redbud are covered with red
pea flowers before the leaves expand.
Pink and white forms of the common
dogWood are in beautiful bloom from
the middle of May, and they fruit pro-.
tily in late summer and are the cArlir>t
of our trees to assume bright autumn
tinted foliage in fall. The mountA' n
ash blooms freely, but is most orna-
mental when full of its umbclS of
orange fruit in late summer and fail.
The European and oak leavrd form of
it are the best.
But what can be prettier than our
native crabapple pyrus coronarial
Double Powered cherry trees, especial
ly Sicbolds, are favoriteS. and 50, too
is the dropping branched Japan cher
ry. Koclreutera, a Chinese tree
with large, upright, compound pancles
of yellow blooms at midsummer, is
quite desirable.
In several cases, smaller than the
preceding and coming between them
and shrubs, we have many almost in
diSpenSabe little trees or tree shrubs
There is the snOwdrop tree, so full OF
dropping bells in May; the white fringe
tree, which is a snowy cloud in June
the tree lilac of Japan, Which blooms {
month later than the common lilac,
and assumes true albOrcal form; til,
lahnrnum, with its dropping claims q
gold: the Chinese magnolias, white an,
purple, which come in April and May
before the leaves expand, and many
others
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