Excerpt from Forest Trees, Fruits and Vegetables The varieties that seem best adapted to street planting are white elm and box elder, the elm being the huest street tree that is native to the temperate zone. Cottonwood grows better in sin gle rows than in close plantations. To many it is an attractive form, and where the cottonwood leaf beetle has not appeared it makes a fair street tree, though never giving the dense shade of box elder. Silver maple ranks next to \white elm and box elder as a street tree, and will be found satisfactory in the southern half of the state. It is apt to throw out strong water sprouts