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| Keywords: Moon's hardy trees and plants for every place and purpose (16765453662).jpg Deciduous Ornamental Trees <br> OTHING can be planted which will grow so well and with so little attention and care <br> as trees The initial cost is small and paid for many times over by the beauty <br> pleasure and satisfaction which they bring In the assortment that we have listed <br> will be found the varieties best adapted for street and avenue planting ; the kinds <br> that will give the coolest shade for lawn and park use ; species of rapid growth to <br> produce quick effects ; those with gorgeous and showy flowers and brilliant autumnal leaves ; kinds <br> with graceful weeping habit; large and dwarf - growing sorts Our collection includes trees <br> adapted for all locations climates and soils All have been grown with care to make them <br> straight stocky well headed and supplied with fibrous roots They have been frequently trans- <br> planted and are prepared for moving Where trees are wanted in large quantities we may be <br> able to offer greater inducements on some varieties so that we solicit correspondence from per- <br> sons who contemplate purchasing in such numbers That the unacquainted may have an idea of <br> the height to which each tree may be expected to grow we have marked the varieties as follows <br> L designates trees growing to 60 feet or over at maturity M from 30 to 60 feet S 20 to 30 <br> ieet D 10 to 20 feet V D less than 10 feet <br> Acer ˘ The Maples <br> Maples are planted perhaps more largely than any other trees They are hardy and well <br> adapted to almost every soil ; are attractive vigorous growers and remarkably free from the <br> attacks of injurious insects Their shade is cool and dense and for this they are indispensable in <br> all lawn park or avenue plantings In autumn the brilliant coloring of their leaves is everywhere <br> ommented upon The Silver Maple is the most rapid-growing but for permanency the Sugar <br> and Norway are usually preferred <br> Acer campestre European Cork Maple S <br> Attractive and hardy growing slowly into a <br> small handsome tree with thick rounded <br> head of small elegant leaves The bark is <br> corky Valuable for planting on high dry <br> grounds 4 to 5 feet 50 cts <br> A colchicum var rubrum Red Maple S The <br> young growth of this rare tree is bright red in <br> May and in August when a second growth <br> appears It grows slowly to a medium-sized <br> round -topped tree found most valuable for <br> contrasts From Japan 6 to 8 feet 1 <br> A dasycarpum Silver Maple L Is widely <br> planted on account of its very rapid growth <br> and adaptability to all soils Forms a large <br> tree with spreading head and silvery leaves <br> 0 50 <br> 6 to 8 feet <br> 8 to 9 feet <br> Acer dasycarpum var Wieri laciniatum Wier's <br> Cut-leaved Silver Maple M A very <br> beautiful rapid-growing variety with deli- <br> cately cut leaves and slender branches that <br> curve gracefully downward An attractive <br> and desirable tree for lawns and parks <br> 7 to 8 feet 0 75 <br> 8 to 10 feet I 25 <br> A Negundo Ash-leaved Maple or Box El- <br> der L A rapid-growing tree of irregular <br> spreading form whose leaves resemble those <br> of the ash Improved by close pruning It <br> withstands cold and dryness 10 to 12 feet <br> i 25 <br> A platanoides Norw ay Maple L A hand- <br> some tree of large growth forming a wide <br> rounded head of spreading branches and <br> having broad deep green leaves Strong <br> 20 45198571 161038 84658 Page 25 Photograph http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/45198571 1905 Moon Samuel C Firm ; Moon William H Co Biodiversity Heritage Library Moon's hardy trees plants for every place purpose Garden Stories Berries Catalogs Climbing plants Evergreens Flowering shrubs Fruit trees Moon William H Co Morrisville Bucks County Nurseries Horticulture Nursery stock Nut trees Ornamental trees Pennsylvania Perennials Pinopsida Rosa Shade trees Shrubs Trees Mertz Library The New York Botanical Garden bhl page 45198571 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/45198571 bhlGardenStories BHLinbloom moon william h co morrisville bucks county nurseries horticulture mertz library the new york botanical garden bhlgardenstories bhlinbloom Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2015-03-09 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/16765453662 2015-08-24 01 55 56 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 1905 catalogs Moon's hardy trees plants for every place purpose Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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