This section is from the book "The Complete Garden", by Albert D. Taylor. Also available from Amazon: The Complete Garden.
These groups contain the very fastest growing and most temporary types of trees and shrubs, and the more rapid-growing types of trees and shrubs often used in permanent plantings. Material may be selected from these groups when an immediate foliage effect is desired.
A. Trees:
Acer negundo Box Elder
Acer saccharinum Silver Maple
Ailanthus glandulosa Tree of Heaven
Catalpa speciosa Western Catalpa
Larix europea European Larch
Madura pomifera Osage Orange
Morus alba tatarica Mulberry
Phellodendron amurense Chinese Cork Tree
Picea excelsa Norway Spruce
Pinus rylvestris Scotch Pine
Platanus orientalis Orientital Plane
Populus (in variety) Poplar
Robinia pseudacacia
Black Locust Salix (in variety)
Willow
B. Shrubs:
Cornus alba sibirica
Siberian Dogwood Cornus stolonifera
Red Osier Cornel Deutzia crenata Pride of Rochester
Large-flowered Deutzia
Diervilla florida
Rose-coloured Weigela
Ligustrum amurense
Amoor River Privet Lonicera (in variety)
Bush Honeysuckle
Philadelphus grandifiorus Large-flowered Mock Orange
Physocarpus opulifolius Ninebark
Sambucus canadensis American Elder
 
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