Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-03-27
GROUNDS
AND SCHOOL YARD


our school yards?
These are questions which are fire.
quently asked the United States de-
partment Of agriculture Soil and eli
| matte conditions differ so greatly in
the different sections OF the United
States that in answering such ques-
lions special consideration has to be
given each section. The departments
specialists have prepared a special
list Of trees and shrubs suited for
| streets, private parks and school
yards for each Of five general divi-
sions Of the United States The five
divisions are as follows:
l. New England States, New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio,
Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tndi
| ana, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa
2. Delaware, Maryland, Virginia.
North Carolina. South Carolina, Geor-
gia. Tennessee. Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi Louisiana, Arkansas, Ok
| lahoma, and Texas
g. Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Da-
| kota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kan
| sas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and
| Idaho.
4. New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and
| Nevada.
5. California, Oregon and Wash
ington.
| These lists are merely suggestive,
but they include such trees and
shrubs as seem we'll adapted to the
particular locality, and they may be
Of assistance to those who are inter
ested In the Identification Of towns
and cities. Here is a list:
| District I.
Deciduous trees. Sugar maple,
| Norway maple, silver maple, green
ash, white ash, American white elm,
red oak, white oak, pin oak, Amerf-
can linden. ~
| Evergreen trees. Norway spru8s
white spruce. Colorado blue spruce,
white pine, Scotch pine balsam fir.
Shurbs. Lilac, golden bell, exc
chorda, SNOWFALL, mock orange, hy-
drangea, Japan ounce, Towering cur
rant, calycanthus, cornus, deutxia,
spiraea, weigla.
District 2.
| Deciduous trees. Tulip, sycamore,
pin oak. white oak, black oak, live
oak, red oak, white ash, bald cypress,
Norway maple, silver maple, red ohm
American white elm, Kentucky coffee
American linden, catalpa, liquidambar
Carolina poplar, blackberry, sour gum
Evergreen trees. White pine, long.
leaf pine, magnolia, live oak, cedar
Of Lebanon.
Shrubs. Golden bell, -hydrangea
lilac, Eloeagnus longgipes, loniceras
hibiscus, hardy roses, Japan ounce
calycanthus, smoke tree
South of Charleston, S. C.-Camel-
liza, japonica.
Southern Florida and Texas-Ole-
ander, privet.
District 8.
Deciduous trees. Bur oak, linden
silver maple, Norway maple, cotton.
wood, green ash, box elder, wild
cherry, larch, American elm, Catal
pa speciosa, black walnut, blackberry
Evergreen trees. Scotch pine, Aus
TRAN pine, white pine, Norway spruce
Colorado blue spruce, white spruce
red cedar, arbor vitae.
Shurbs. Lilac, barberry, cornus
Tamarivx amurensis, Japan ounce
Rosa rugosa, crataegus, Eloeagnue
hortensis, snowdrop, Shepherdia ar
gentea.
District a.
Deciduous trees. Valley cotton.
wood (Populus fremontii wizliznia)
mountain cottonwood (Populus angus
tlfolia), mountain ash (Fraxinus vel
utina), box elder (Alcer negundo).
Evergreen trees. Arbor vitae. Ced.
rus deodara, box euonymus.
Shrubs. Althea, SNOWFALL. mock
orange, wild rose, Grape myrtle, spir-
aea, Towering cuTrant, elder, lilac.
District 5.
Deciduous trees. Coast region)
barge-leaved maple, tulip tree, noun
tain ash, European linden, sycamore.
weeping willow
| Shrubs Coast Tegion). Roses, wei
gela, European holly, lilac laburnum.
deutzia, Hydrangea paniculata, mock
orange, Japan ounce
Trees Columbia Basin). Scot II
elm, American elm, Norway maple.
European linden, sycamore, green ash,
silver poplar, Russian poplar, white
| willow