. Trees for Long Island. Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Westbury (Nassau County) Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. * AVENUE OF SILVER MAPLES IN BROOKLYN. The best cheap street tree, the quickest in growth and the longest-lived of the low-cost trees, being, in this soil, superior to the poplar. Some object to its tendency to split in the wind, but this is due to wrong pruning, which produces several long branches, instead of a single trunk. The borer is easily killed by injecting a tew drops of carbon bi- sulph
. Trees for Long Island. Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Westbury (Nassau County) Catalogs; Fruit Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs. * AVENUE OF SILVER MAPLES IN BROOKLYN. The best cheap street tree, the quickest in growth and the longest-lived of the low-cost trees, being, in this soil, superior to the poplar. Some object to its tendency to split in the wind, but this is due to wrong pruning, which produces several long branches, instead of a single trunk. The borer is easily killed by injecting a tew drops of carbon bi- sulphide in the hole, and quickly plugging with putty. In form the Silver Maple approaches the elm, and on many of our roads it forms an arching canopy of shade, much better and quicker than the elm. We have selected trees grown S feet apart and 20 feet high; also, trees 25 to 30 feet high, with 15 feet spread of branches and roots, and with S-inch trunk, for immediate effect. FTEROCARYA. New trees of the hickory family, which grow with surprising rapidity. The leaves resemble the black: walnut. They usually grow with several trunks. SASSAFRAS. When grown as a single lawn tree this makes a pretty round-topped tree of pleasing green aromatic foliage, quite surpassing its brother of the hedgerow. SHAD "BUSTS. {Amelanchier canadensis). A shrub, or small tree, flowering with the earliest. Plant with hemlocks as a background for its fleecy white flowers. SOFHORA. A locust-like tree, with cream-colored flowers in summer. STYRAX. A neat little tree, hung full of snowdrop bells. SUMACH, Stag'horu. A shrub, sometimes rising to the stature of a tree with a single trunk. In early autumn the color is brilliant. The other species are shrubs. TULIP TREE {Liriodendron Tulipifera). For de- scription and illustration, see page 14. THORN (Hawthorn, Cratcegus). The Hawthorns are a genus of beautiful small trees of picturesque sky-line. They are a valuable class of lawn trees, and may be used in s
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