. Descriptive catalogue and price-list of native plants of the southern Alleghany Mountains including deciduous and evergreen trees, flowering shrubs, hardy herbaceous perennials, vines, orchids, ferns, aquatics and bog plants. Nurseries (Horticulture) North Carolina Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. DECIDUOUS ORNflMENTAL TREES. the ll^ec'kly Tribune, Mr. Josiali Iloopes lakes strong grounds in fa'uor of native can trees, on the ground that they are less liable to disease in our clintate, longer lived, aiii heaiitiful and useful as a class than their foreign ;âSenex. Each.
. Descriptive catalogue and price-list of native plants of the southern Alleghany Mountains including deciduous and evergreen trees, flowering shrubs, hardy herbaceous perennials, vines, orchids, ferns, aquatics and bog plants. Nurseries (Horticulture) North Carolina Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. DECIDUOUS ORNflMENTAL TREES. the ll^ec'kly Tribune, Mr. Josiali Iloopes lakes strong grounds in fa'uor of native can trees, on the ground that they are less liable to disease in our clintate, longer lived, aiii heaiitiful and useful as a class than their foreign ;âSenex. Each. ACER Pennsylvanicum (Striped Maple). A graceful, medium sized tree, 13 to 15 feet high, of good shape and light green foliage, with beautifully striptd bark, which is very conspicuous when the foliage falls. 1 to 2 ft $0 20 2 to 4 feet 35 to 50 A. rubrum (Red or Scarlet Maple). Is noted in spring for its showy red blos- soms and bright red winged fruit, and in autumn for the brilliant coloiing of its foliage ; a conspicuous tree in all situations, i to 2 feet 20 2 to 4 feet 35 to 50 A. saccharinum (Sugar Maple). A handsome, stately tree of pyramidal growth and fine habit ; one of the best for avenue, street and lawn planting. 1 to 2 ft. 15 2 to 3 feet 35 3 to 5 feet ' 50 A. spicatum. See under Shrubs. ANDROMEDA arborea (Tree Andromeda, Sour Wood). One of our finest native trees, producing white, fragrant flowers, borne on sUnder petioles in lonij panicled racemes, and very graceful foliage that is brilliantly colortd in early autumn. 6 to 12 inches 20 1 to 3 feet 35 AMELANCHIER botryapium (Service or Juneberry). This is generally a small tree, but here in our mountains it often attains a height of 30 to 60 feet, and a diameter of 2 feet or over. It is a handsome ornamental, and very early in spring its snow-white flowers open in terminal drooping racemes in the greatest profusion, producing a fine effect in sharp contrast to the sur- roundings, which are still quite wintry ; t
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