This section is from the "American Horticultural Manual Vol1" book, by J. L. Budd. Also available from Amazon American Horticultural Manual, Part One (1902).
This also has been a neglected tree by propagators and planters. As found native in the prairie Stabes, it forms a round-topped tree of rapid growth, with exceedingly varied shade of foliage on different trees. In fact by propagating special variations in one lot of seedlings we may have a large number of distinct varieties. It is easily propagated from the crushed berries stratified for spring planting.
 
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