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Nut Trees
Chestnut
Chestnut
Castanea dentata Up to 100'. Once common in the eastern US. Important food source for people and wildlife. Not immune to blight but likely to thrive 10-30 years. Fast growing and precocious. Z4. read more
Chestnut
Castanea pumila 15-30' x 10-20' Also called Allegheny Chinquapin and Dwarf Chestnut.
Smaller in stature than the American or Chinese chestnuts,
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Walnut
Juglans nigra 70-90'. Spectacular shade tree with open rounded crown. Nuts have sweet earthy rich flavor. May begin to bear in 5-10 years. Z4. read more
Shade Trees
American Elm
Birch
Birch
Betula papyrifera 30-70' x 30'. Medium-sized tree with magnificent chalk-white peeling bark. Valuable wood. Bark used for traditional crafts. Z3. read more
Birch
Betula nigra 60-80' x 40-60'
With its graceful silhouette and attractive bark, river birch is a highly prized ornamental. Grows to be a very large
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Linden
Tilia americana 60-80' x same. Tall stately tree with rounded crown and low-hung spreading branches. Sweetly fragrant yellow June flowers. Z3. read more
Oak
Oak
Oak
Quercus palustris 50-70' x 40-60'
Fast-growing oak of the red oak family. The acorns are smaller than those of the red oak and the leaves have
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Oak
Quercus rubra 60-75' x 45'
The most common oak in northern New England. Typically a single large trunk dividing into several large ascending
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Oak
Quercus bicolor 50-60' x same. Massive rounded shade tree with short deeply ridged trunk and fan of branches. Yellow to reddish-purple fall foliage. Native. Z3. read more
Sweetgum
Tuliptree
Weeping Willow
Weeping Willow
Salix pendulina f. salamonii 50x50' (S. babylonica Babylon x S. alba Vitellana) Selected by Späth, Berlin, Germany, 1888.
For years we listed this
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