Trees And Homes - Every Tree For Its Use

Shade Trees for the Northeast

by ALMA M. WATERMAN, R. U. SWINGLE, CLAYTON S. MOSES

Throughout the Northeastern States, the maples, the elms, and the oaks have long been preferred for shade trees. The elms in this region, however, are threatened by two serious diseases. In the northwestern part a wilt disease impairs the value of red oaks for shade-tree planting. Fortunately, there are still many kinds of beautiful native trees and some introduced kinds that make satisfactory shade trees.

Some of the outstanding deciduous shade trees that can be recommended for residential and suburban sections, primarily because of their tolerance of city conditions, are: Sugar maple, Norway maple, red maple, white oak, pin oak, northern red oak, scarlet oak, Texas oak or Shumard oak, thornless common honeylocust, sweetgum, gink-go, American sycamore, London plane-tree, common hackberry, black tupelo, green ash, silver linden, littleleaf linden, Kentucky coffeetree, yellow-poplar or tuliptree, the American yellow-wood, Japanese pagodatree, and Amur corktree.

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