Well-grown specimens resemble the sweet cherry; both this and the yellow birch (B. lutea*) make attractive light-leaved trees; they are not appreciated.
Hornbeam or blue beech, Carpinus Americana.* Chestnut, Castanea saliva† and C. Americana.*†
Showy catalpa, Catalpa speciosa.†‡ Very dark, soft-foliaged tree of small to medium size; showy in flower; for northern regions should be raised from northern-grown seed.
Smaller catalpa, C. bignonioides.† Less showy than the last, blooming a week or two later; less hardy.
Japanese catalpa, C. ovata (C. Kœmpferi).‡ In northern sections often remains practically a bush.
Nettle-tree, Celtis occidentalis.*
Katsura-tree, Cercidiphyllum Japonicum.‡ A small or medium-sized tree of very attractive foliage and habit.
Red-bud, or Judas-tree, Cercis Canadensis.* Produces a profusion of rose-purple pea-like flowers before the leaves appear; foliage also attractive.
Yellow-wood, or virgilia, Cladrastis tinctoria.* One of the finest hardy flowering trees.