South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-31
Trees and Shrubs For Private
Grounds and School Yards
Shade Trees and Ornamental Shrubs Are Recommended for
Different SeCtionSof the United States

WASHINGTON, March 81. - What
kind OF trees shall we plant TO beauti-
fy our grounds?
What shrubs would be suited TO our
school yards?
These are questions which are fire.
quently asked the United States de-
partment of agriculture. Soil and
climatic conditions differ so greatly in
the different sections of the United
States that in answering such ques-
lions special consideration has 10 be
given each section. The departments
specialists have prepared a special
list of trees and shrugs suited for
general use on private grounds
streets, private parks and school
yards for each of five general divi-
sions OF the United States. The five
divisions are as follows:
1. New England states. New York.
Pennsylvania. New Jersey. Ohio, West
Virginia. Kentucky. Indiana, Michi-
gan, Illinois. Missouri. Iowa.
Q Delaware. Maryland. Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi Louisiana, Arkansas
Oklahoma and Texas.
8. Wisconsin, Minnesota North
Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska,
Kansas Colorado, Wyoming, Montana
and Idaho.
4. New Mexico. Altoona, Utah
and Nevada.
5. California. Oregon and Wash
ington.
These lists are merely suggestive.
but they include such trees and
shrubs as seem well 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 list:
District 1.
DECIDUOUS TREES-Su Sugar ma
pie. Norway maple, silver maple,
green ash, white ash. American white
elm. red oak. white oak, pin oak.
American linden.
EVERGREEN TREES - Norway
spruce, white spruce, Colorado blue
spruce, white pine, Scotch pine, bal !
sam fir.
SHRUBS-Lilac golden bell. ex-
ochorda, SNOWFALL, mock orange,
hydrangea, japan ounce, Towering
currant, calycanthus, cOrnus, deutzia, |
spiraea, weigela.
District =.
DECIDUOUS TREES Tulip. syca-
more, pin oak white oak, black oak, !
live oak red oak, white ash, bald |
cypress, Norway maple, silver maple, |
red elm, American white elm, Ken |
lucky coffee, American linden, catal- |
pa, liquidambar, Carolina poplar |
blackberry, sour gum.
EVERGREEN TREES - White |
pine, long-leaf pine, magnolia, live |
oak, cedar of Lebanon.
SHRUBS-Golden bell. hydrangea, !
lilac, EIoeagnus lOngipes, lOniceras, |
hibiscus, hardy roses Japan ounce, /
calycanthus, smoke tree.
South of Charleston, s. Camel
liza, japonica.
Southern Florida and Texas -
Oleander, privet
District 3.
DECIDUOUS TREES-Bur oak,
linden. silver maple. Norway maple.
cottonwood, green ash box elder,
wild cherry larch. American elm,
catalpa speciosa, black walnut, hack
berry.
EVERGREEN TREES - Scotch
pine, Austrian pine. white pine, Nor
way spruce. Colorado blue spruce,
white spruce. red cedar, arbor vitae.
SHRUBS-Llac. barberry. cornus,
tamariX armurensis. Japan ounce,
rosa rugOsa, Crataegus, ElOeagnus
hortensis suowdrop, shepherdia ar
gentea.
District 4.
DECIDUOUS TREES-Nalley cot
(pOpulus fremOntH wiZliZe-
MAJ, mountain cottonwood (populus
angustifolia), mountain ash (fraxi-
nus velutina). box elder (acer negun-
do.
EVERGREEN TREES - ArbOr
vitae, cedrus deodara, box euonymus.
SHRUBS-Althea SNOWFALL, mock