New this year Blue Crop Blueberry is a midseason variety that produces medium size fruit with high sugar content. Berries are great for eating fresh, canning or freezing. 5-6 ft. Cumberland Black Raspberry plants produce medium-large, blue-black berries, which have an outstanding raspberry flavor. It’s good for eating fresh, making jams and jellies, and will survive in cold areas. It shows great winter hardiness and the fruit ripens July to August. Latham Red Thornless Raspberry are extra large, extra fine, bright red berries that are firm with superior appearance and flavor. Big yields that are fine for freezing, cooking and dessert that are ready midseason. Common Lilac is an early blooming plant with compact branching that produces fragrant lilac-lavender single flowers. 8-12 ft. Milkweed Plants are host plants for the Monarch Butterfly. Monarchs only lay their eggs on milkweed plants and are the only source of food for the caterpillar, or larvae. We have three species available. Allegheny Serviceberry is a small tree reaching up to 25 ft. Produces white flowers and red to purplish black fruit. Prefers well-drained, slightly alkaline to acidic loam or sand and partial shade. Fruit are edible and does attract birds. Buttonbush is a 4-20 ft. shrub/small tree of wetland habitat. Insects, bees, and hummingbirds use the nectar, wood ducks use it for nesting, waterfowl and song birds utilize the seeds, and deer browse the foliage. Pre-orders are encouraged due to limited supplies. Additional trees will be available at the Tree Sale. 2016 Tree Seedling Sale Order Form Name__________________________________________ Address________________________________________ City ______________________ State ______ZIP_______ Phone_________________________________________ Description Qty Price Total Individual Tree Species (Packets of 5, unless noted) Red Oak _____ White Oak _____ Burr Oak _____ Black Walnut _____ Domestic Apple _____ Sugar Maple _____ Pawpaw _____ Black Elderberry _____ Persimmon _____ Redbud _____ White Flowering Dogwood _____ Bitternut Hickory _____ Allegheny Serviceberry _____ 10 Colorado Blue Spruce _____ 100 Colorado Blue Spruce _____ 10 White Pine _____ 100 White Pine _____ $5.00 $6.00 $6.00 $6.00 $6.00 $6.00 $6.00 $6.00 $6.00 $6.00 $6.00 $6.00 $6.00 $5.00 $40.00 $5.00 $40.00 $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ Raspberries (2 per packet) Shrubs (5 per packet) Cumberland Black Raspberry Red Thornless Raspberry Blue Crop Blueberry Common Lilac Buttonbush 2 ½ in pot Common Milkweed 2 ½ in pot Butterfly Weed _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 2 ½ in pot Swamp Milkweed _____ $6.00 $6.00 $10.00 $5.00 $5.00 $5.00 $5.00 $5.00 $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ $ ________ $ _______ Miscellaneous Blue Bird Houses 1 _____ 3 Chambered Bat House 1 Tree Protector & stake 1 _____ Fertilizer Tablets 25 _____ $18.00 $43.00 $5.00 $5.00 Total Due Make checks payable to: Belmont SWCD, 101 N. Market St., St. Clairsville, OH 43950 Packets must be picked up on Thursday, April 21 or Friday, April 22 between 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. at 45420 Roscoe Road St. Clairsville, OH 43950 (Belmont SWCD building at the Belmont County New Fairgrounds). For additional information, call (740) 526-0027. *We will be moving, please contact the office to see if we have received your order form. $________ $ $ ________ $ ________ $ ___________ For Office Use Only Date_______________________ Check___________ Cash Receipt _________________ 2016 Belmont SWCD Tree Seedling Sale Thursday, April 21 & Friday, April 22, 2016 from 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. 45420 Roscoe Road St. Clairsville, OH 43950 (Belmont SWCD building at the New Fairgrounds). Pre-orders are encouraged due to limited supplies. First come, first served. Any orders not picked up by Friday, April 22, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. will be considered a donation to the Belmont SWCD. Red Oak Pawpaw Sugar Maple One of the fastest growing oak trees that provides excellent fall color with very few dead lower branches, if any. It is an ideal timber and wildlife tree. It is tolerant of many soil conditions and does well on north-facing slopes. It will reach 60-80- feet. An excellent ornamental and wildlife tree that produces edible fruit. It is slower growing, but longlived. It does best on rich sites and stream bottoms, as an understory component and grows to 40 feet. Valued for its syrup production and hard, dense, fine-grained and difficultto-split wood, which is utilized for floors, furniture, veneer, musical instruments and railroad ties. A favorite shade tree with reliable fall color may reach 80 feet. Bitternut Hickory This tree is frequently found in dry uplands or moist valleys in White Oak association with other hickories An excellent timber and wildlife and oaks. The nuts are bitter. tree. It is slower growing, but long Grows to 80 feet tall. lived and is tolerant of many soil conditions and reaches 60-80 Persimmon feet. Known for its ripened fruit, providing food for animals and Burr Oak humans alike in mid to late autumn Is one of the slower growing is used for golf club heads and oaks. Acorns mature first year billiard cues. It is adaptable to a and are the largest of any North variety of soil and moisture, and American oak. It is fire and polluted conditions and grows to 50 drought resistance. Grows 100 feet tall. feet. Black Elderberry Is a large shrub or small tree with irregular crown with clusters of white flowers and small black or purple berries. Prefers wet soils in open areas near water at forest edges. Elderberries are used for making jelly, preserves, pies, and wine. Colorado Blue Spruce Fine for ornamental and Christmas trees. It displays a blue or green-silver short needle. It prefers moist, acidic soils, but not poorly drained or wet. Grows to 50 feet tall. Redbud Butternut A rapid growing tree that prefers well-drained soils and full sunlight. The nuts are consumed by humans and wildlife. It reaches 66 feet. Is a small tree in which branches grow outward rather than upward. It is frequently used as an ornamental bloomer in spring with bright pink flowers. It grows well in moist, but not wet soils. Average height is 40 feet. Domestic Apple Dogwood (White Flowering) Deciduous tree growing to 30ft. The flowers that bloom from April to June are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by insects. It is noted for attracting wildlife. Prefers well-drained soil. One of the most popular ornamental trees with early spring flowers and red fruits and crimson foliage in autumn. It prefers evenly moist, well-drained, fertile, deep soils of acidic ph in partial sun. It may reach 30 feet wide and 15 feet tall. White Pine A native pine, classed as a “soft pine”, is the only 5-needled pine in the eastern U.S. It is an important for timber, excellent ornamental tree, windbreak or for wildlife habitat. It performs best in evenly moist, rich, well-drained, acidic soils in full sun. It is fast growing. Miscellaneous Items 1 Blue Bird Houses – Wildlife Choice 1 Three Chambered Bat House-Wildlife Choice 1 Tree Protectors & stakes – 5 feet tall 25 Fertilizer Tablets –slow release