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Book: Landscape Gardening in Japan, 1912
Chapter: Chapter 11. Garden Vegetation

Deciduous trees and bushes

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DECIDUOUS TREES AND BUSHES. The principal deciduous trees consist of Sycamores, Maples, Chestnuts, Elms, Beeches, Hornbeams, Birches, Ashes, Limes, Willows, Poplars, Mulberry trees, etc., as follows:�Acer argutum (Miyama-momiji), Acer buergerianum (Hana-kaede), Acer carpinefolium (Yama-shiba or Chidori-no-ki), Acer cissifolium (Mitsude-kaede), Acer diabolicum (Oni-momiji), Acer distylum (Hitotsuba-kaede), Acer parvifolium (Tetsu-kaede), Acer pictum (Tsuta-momiji), Acer palmatum (Yama-momiji), Acer japonicum (Meigetsu-kaede), Acer rufinerve (Urihada-kaede), Acer purpurascens (Kachi-kaede), Castanea vulgaris, var. japonica (Kuri), Celtis cinensis (Yenoki), Ulmus montana (Atsuni), Ulmus parvifolia (Akinire), Ulmus campestris (Yagiri or Kobu-nire), Zelkowa keaki (Keyaki), Fagus sieboldi (Shiro-buna), Fagus sylvatica (Buna-no-ki), Betula alba (Kaba-no-ki), Betula corylifolia (Mehari-no-ki), Betula lenta (Kawara-buna), Betula ulmifolia (Yoguso-mine-bari), Fraxinus longicuspis (Aodako), Fraxinus mandschurica (Shoji), Fraxinus pubinervis (Toneriko), Tilia cordata (Shina-no-ki), Tilia miqueliana (Bodaiju), Salix babylonica (Shidare-yanagi), Salix brachystachys (Neko-yanagi), Salix japonica (Shiba-yanagi), Salix nipponica (Tachi-yanagi), Salix padifolia (Yama-yanagi), Salix purpurea (Kawa-yanagi), Salix rubra (Saru-yanagi), Salix sieboldiana (Iwa-yanagi), Salix subopposita (Kuro-yanagi), Populus tremula (Hako-yanagi), Populus suaveolens (Poplar), Spir� thun-bergii (Yuki-yanagi), Morus alba (Kuwa), Lagerstr�mia indica (Hiakujikko or Saru-suberi), Alnus firma (Minebari), Alnus maritima (Han-no-ki), Alnus incana (Yama-ban-no-ki), Sambucus racemosa, var. sieboldiana (Niwatoko), Paullownia imperialis (Kiri), Sterculia plantanifolia (Aogiri), and several garden varieties of the Kiri species known as:�Shiro-giri, Iigiri, Akame-giri, Oka-giri, Fuyu-giri, Goto-giri, Abura-giri, To-giri, Shina-giri, and Shima-giri. Also �sculus turbinata (Tochi-no-ki), Diospyros kaki (Kaki), of which there are five or six varieties, Ginkgo biloba (Icho), Catalpa k�mpferi (Adzusa), Sophora japonica (Yenju), Albizzia julibrissin (Nemu-no-ki), Actinidia polygama (Matatabi), Ficus carica (Ichi-jiku), Corylus heterophylla (Hashibami), Aphananthe aspera (Muku-no-ki), Hovenia dulcis (Kempo-nashi), Lindera sericea (Kuromoji), Lindera triloba (Shiromoji), Rhus vernicifera (Urushi-no-ki), Rhus succedanea (Haze-no-ki), Vaccinium ciliatum (Natsu-haze), Euonymus curop�us (Mayumi), Euonymus alatus (Nishikigi), Edgeworthia papyrifera (Mitsu-mata), Quercus crispula (O-nara), Quercus glandulifera (Ko-na-ra), Cedrela chinensis (Chanchin), Tamarix chinensis (Gioriu), Cornus macrophylla (Mizuki), Clethra barbinervis (Riobu), Melia japonica (Ko-sendan), Melia tosendan (To- sendan), Crataeegus sanguinea (O-sanzashi), Crataegus cuneata (Sanzashi), Rhamnus crenata (Iso-no-ki), Meliosma myriantha (Awa-buki), Ehretia serrata (Chisha-no-ki), Broussonetia kasinoki (Kaji-no-ki), Pterostyrax corymbosum (Asagara), Ligustrum ibota (Ibota-no-ki), Ligustrum medium (Oba-itabo-no-ki), Sapindus mukurosi (Mukuroji), Viburnum dilatatum (Gamadzumi), Gleichenia glauca (Urajiro), Sophora japonica (Enju), Cladrastis amurensis (Inu-enju), Juglans regia (Oni-gurumi), Juglans cordiformis (Hime-gurumi), Pterocarya rhoifolia (Sawa-gurumi), and Platycarya strobilacea, (No-gurumi).