. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . Stectfrious urecs. 173 THE >ETTLE FAMILY. Elm, Ulmus montana, V. campestris, U. Americana.—These are well-known trees with obovate crowns, verybroad at the top, oblique -praysand sometimesslender, pendu-lous elms areexcellent treesfor avenues, butoften becomeeasy prey forinsects whichstrip them ofevery leaf indry preferrich, loamy soilwith a gravellysubsoil. Ulmuscampestrisis ex-cellent forhedges. Of thisspecies there areseveral sjood .$i&.. WKmi^^^i FIG. TREE t
. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . Stectfrious urecs. 173 THE >ETTLE FAMILY. Elm, Ulmus montana, V. campestris, U. Americana.—These are well-known trees with obovate crowns, verybroad at the top, oblique -praysand sometimesslender, pendu-lous elms areexcellent treesfor avenues, butoften becomeeasy prey forinsects whichstrip them ofevery leaf indry preferrich, loamy soilwith a gravellysubsoil. Ulmuscampestrisis ex-cellent forhedges. Of thisspecies there areseveral sjood .$i&.. WKmi^^^i FIG. TREE tCELTIS OCCIDENTALISM varieties, one with yellow leaves. The majority of itsnumerous forms are of little or no importance. The samemay be said of the varieties of the Scotch elm ( U. Man- i74 IDect&uous Hrees. tana). There are two very distinct forms, one with fasti-giate the other with pendulous branches. The white elm,(U. Americana) is of a more elegant habit than the rest,with more slender branches. Nettle Tree, Geltis occidental)*.—An elegant tree ofmedium size growing in rich, moist ground. The leavesare more narrow than those of the elm. The crown isirregular, rounded, broadest at the base. It will grow inany moderately good soil. Mulberry, Moras.—The mulberry trees are seldomused in ornamental gardening, but they are very orna-mental when young. The most useful species for thispurpose is the red mulberry (M. rubra), which has thefinest foliage. All are useful for hedge-planting. Theblack mulberry gives a well-known fruit. Paper Mulberry, Br
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