| Chestnut | Red oak | White oak |
White Elm or Swamp Elm
(Ulmus Americana)
A tall, splendid forest tree, commonly 100, occasionally 120 feet high. Wood reddish-brown, hard, strong, tough, very hard to split, coarse, heavy. Soon rots near the ground. Leaves 2 to 5 inches long. Flowers in early spring before leafing. Abundant, Newfoundland and Manitoba to Texas.
Sycamore, Plane Tree, Buttonball or Buttonwood
(Platanus occidentalis)
One of the largest of our trees; up to 140 feet high; commonly hollow. Little use for weather work. Famous for shedding {132} its bark as well as its leaves; leaves 4 to 9 inches long. Canada to Gulf.
Black or Yellow Locust, Silver Chain
(Robinia pseudacacia)
A tall forest tree up to 80 feet high; leaves 8 to 14 inches long; leaflets 9 to 19, 1 to 2 inches long, pods 2 to 4 inches long, 4 to 7 seeded. This is the common locust so often seen about old lawns.
| White elm | Sycamore | Black locust |
Red, Scarlet, Water, or Swamp Maple
(Acer rubrum)