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American White Birch is listed in The Northwest Nursery Co. catalog as a hardy ornamental and forest tree for prairie planting. The catalog values it for white bark and foliage, not fruit. It describes the tree as native to the Pembina Mountains of North Dakota and says the nursery is raising a native strain described as absolutely hardy. [S1]
The catalog presents the tree in plain landscape terms. Its chalky white bark and striking foliage made it, in the nursery's words, a desirable lawn tree, especially with evergreens. The entry also recommends adding a few white birches to groves for variety. [S1]
Hardiness is the main horticultural point. The catalog says American White Birch will stand almost any amount of cold and notes that it grows as far north as the Hudson Bay region of Canada. This appears in a North Dakota prairie planting section that repeatedly favors native or locally collected hardy material. [S1]
No fruit use, breeder, release date, parentage, or cultivar lineage is given. This is a nursery catalog entry for a native hardy tree type, not a named fruit cultivar. [S1]
Summary source basis
This summary currently draws chiefly from PERENNIALS - The Northwest Nursery Co..
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“Every grove should contain a few of these white barked trees for the sake of variety. When planting a grove always provide for a few American White Birch.”
— PERENNIALS - The Northwest Nursery Co., p7
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| 103 | PERENNIALS - The Northwest Nursery Co. | unknown | 4 | 0 | 0 | p7 | Every grove should contain a few of these white barked trees for variety.; A group of birch and evergreens make a pleasing picture on any lawn.; It will stand almost any amount of cold, and is often found as far north as |
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| 103 | p7 | recommendation_context | Every grove should contain a few of these white barked trees for variety. | Every grove should contain a few of these white barked trees for the sake of variety. When planting a grove always provide for a few American White Birch. | page_block:0.90 |
| 103 | p7 | recommendation_context | Agroup of birch and evergreens make a pleasing picture on any lawn. | Every grove should contain a few of these white barked trees for the sake of variety. When planting a grove always provide for a few American White Birch. | page_block:0.90 |
| 103 | p7 | entry_hardiness_observation | It will stand almost any amount of cold, and is often found as far north as the Hudson Bay regions of Canada. | Every grove should contain a few of these white barked trees for the sake of variety. When planting a grove always provide for a few American White Birch. | page_block:0.90 |
| 103 | p7 | description_snippet | Its chalky white bark and striking foliage make it a very desirable lawn tree. | Every grove should contain a few of these white barked trees for the sake of variety. When planting a grove always provide for a few American White Birch. | page_block:0.90 |
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| recommendation_context | Every grove should contain a few of these white barked trees for variety. | 0.90 |
| recommendation_context | A group of birch and evergreens make a pleasing picture on any lawn. | 0.84 |
| entry_hardiness_observation | It will stand almost any amount of cold, and is often found as far north as the Hudson Bay regions of Canada. | 0.92 |
| description_snippet | Its chalky white bark and striking foliage make it a very desirable lawn tree. | 0.89 |
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