Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-05

At first glance, the end of the gar
dening season may seem a queer time
to discuss planting for seashore To-
cations, but it really is the best time
because the summer cottager has at
that period more time to plan for
the coming season, being on the
ground and noting the bare places
that need filing with trees and flow
ers and having an opportunity to con-
suit with florist and nurseyman about
planting things before the cottage is
occupied in the spring.
Successful seashore planting depends
primarily on the proper selection of
kinds OF trees, shrubs, vines ana
plants-a choice founded not upon
theory, but upon observation and no.
tation Of what kinds grow reason
ably well near salt water. Choose
and plant the trees first; for a tree.
under the most favorable conditions,
VIII be many years growing into q
large specimen. Trees make a slower
growth &t the seashore than in the
interior, and usually attain a lesser
height.
Let us discuss first the deciduous
trees which have proved to be suit
able for seaside planting The ash
=
rapid grower, attaining a Height of
from twenty-five to forty feet. 1t has
a broad, spreading head, light green
branches, and leaves not like those IT
other naples, but pinnateh, like those
of an ash tree. There are other more
handsome trees, butgfew are harder
or grown more freely at the sea-
shore. The sycamore maple. Acer
Pseudo-platanus, is a very handsome,
broad-headed tree, growing to Il
height of from fifty to sixty feet. It's
foliage is broad thick, and of deep
green color, giving a dense shade. 1t
is one of the very best of the naples
for seaside planting.
The European linden, Tilia Euro
paea, has a fine pyramidal form. Its
perfect symmetry adds much to it's
beauty, and its flowers are very fra
grant. The sweet gum, Liquidambar
styraciflua flourishes on lawns close
to the sea. This is a tall-growing,
elegant tree,' having handsome STAR
shaped leaves, which are very fra
grant when. bruised, or when young,
after shower. In autumn its TO-
liage turns bright red, is fully as
brilliant as that of the maple and re-
mains much later on the tree This
tree should be planted in the spring
only. The Kentucky coffee tree,
Gymnocladus eanadensis, is not often
seen at the seashore, but grows well
there. This beautiful shade tree at
tains a height of from fifty to sixty
feet, and has a unique large bipin-
nate foliage. 1t bears terminal ra-
GENES of whitish flowers, which are
followed by oblong fiat pods filed
with f1attish seeds These seeds for
merly were used as a domestic sub
stitute for coffee, and the leaves of
this tree, when macerated and sweet
ened, are sometimes used to poison
house flies. The pin oak, Quercus pa
lustris. is by far the best of the oaks
for planting near the sea. This is
very handsome, symmetrical-growi
tree, reaching height of from thirty
to forty feet. whose deeply pinnatfid
foliage is a beautiful dark green.
Don't Forget the Willows.
In seaside paintings the willows
must not be forgotten, because they
grow so well and rapidly there, and
furthermore, they are very unlike any
other shade tree in form of growth or
foliage Foremost among the willows
in size is the Babylonian. This is a
graceful weeping tree. forming large
round head, and should be given