Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) / A Practical Guide to the Making of Home Grounds and the Growing of Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables for Home Use

by L. H. Bailey

Horse chestnut, Æsculus Hippocastanum.†‡ Useful for single specimens and roadsides; many forms.

Buckeye, Æ. octandra (Æ. flava)*‡

Ohio buckeye, Æ. glabra*

Red buckeye, Æ. cornea (Æ. rubicunda).

Ailanthus, Ailanthus glandulosa. A rapid grower, with large pinnate leaves; the staminate plant possesses a disagreeable odor when it flowers; suckers badly; most useful as a shrub; see the same under Shrubs (also Fig. 50).

Alder, Alnus glutinosa. The var. imperialis‡ is one of the best cut-leaved small trees.

European birch, Betula alba.

Cut-leaved weeping birch, B. alba var. laciniata pendula.‡

American white birch, B. populifolia.*

Paper, or canoe birch, B. papyrifera.*