. The care of trees, in lawn, street and park [microform] : with a list of trees and shrubs for decorative use. Trees; Jardins; Arbres; Landscape gardening. 248 Trees for Shade and Ornnment four to fivf hundred species, varieties, and hybri<is. medium sized to (mostly) small trees and shrubs, which besides their pod-like fruit, have also similar, small leaflets, forming a graceful foliage, generally beset with thorns or spines. Some have striking flowers, which form an additional ornament. They are adaptive to poor soils, and are very light-needing. Robinia. Three native species have their
. The care of trees, in lawn, street and park [microform] : with a list of trees and shrubs for decorative use. Trees; Jardins; Arbres; Landscape gardening. 248 Trees for Shade and Ornnment four to fivf hundred species, varieties, and hybri<is. medium sized to (mostly) small trees and shrubs, which besides their pod-like fruit, have also similar, small leaflets, forming a graceful foliage, generally beset with thorns or spines. Some have striking flowers, which form an additional ornament. They are adaptive to poor soils, and are very light-needing. Robinia. Three native species have their valuable points : R. pseiidiuacid Linn. (85), Black Locust <m New Kngland called fJoney Locust), the best known; a small to medium-sized tree, is hardy everywhere. It is most interesting and beautiful when in flower, with large, pendent, fragrant, white clusters (May, June), set off by the yeliowi .h-green to dark green foliage. In winter the unattractive |k).1s persist, and the straggling branch system, with rough, ridgy bark on the old trees, and shon prickles on the smm)th bark of the branches, detracts from its looks. It excels in its rapidity of growth, the ease of transplanting, and adaptation to almost any soil, even t!ie poorest and driest; but it is variable in outline according to the site, from the hand- some, roundish or elliptical form and upright habit on cool, rich loam and not too poor sand (under such conditions making a fine lawn tree), to the ugly, straggling, and unsatisfactory form on compact clay soil, especially in old age, when branches here and there Ix-gin to die. To be used mainly for grouping by themselves on knolls and t<j cover sandy or gravelly wastes; singly, near houses, and on small grounds for cheap, rough hedges. Unfortunately, a borer working in the lower trunk disfigures, although rarely kills, the tree; a leaf fungus not infre- quently attacks it, and it has the bad habit of suckering from the shallow roots, liasily propagated by cut
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