The most notable trees to come out of easterly New York ’s Catskill Mountains may have been the evergreen that Mark Carr harvested and transported to New York City ’s first commercial Christmas tree lot in 1851 . The Catskills , however , are home many Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree species . Hardwood beeches , maples , oaks and basswoods light up up mountainsides in the fall . Flowering trees fill them with saltation gloss and fragrance . The Catskills ' wildlife depends on these Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree for food and shelter .

Paper Birch

report birch rod ( Betula papyrifera ) , immortalized in a Robert Frost poem , is as iconic a northeast American tree as the sugar maple . This slender - trunked tree diagram theme song characteristic is report - thin bloodless bark marred with black scars where it has peel . Reaching 50 to 75 metrical unit , frequently with multiple short pants , graceful newspaper publisher birches furnish the bark with which northeast Native Americans address their with cedar - framed canoes . Today its wood shows up in toothpicks , ice pick bar stick , thread bobbin and veneering . Paper birch rod grow wild along the Catskill ’s damp slope and current banks . They need cool summertime and tolerate Sunday and shade . Plant them in dampish rich stain . They are specially effective , according to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center , in ornamental plantings with backdrops of dark evergreen .

Sugar Maple

Generations of New England calendars have describe the month of October with photos of dough maple ( Acer saccharum ) in its full fall halo . Sugar maple ’s evenfall foliage is a dazzling display of several brilliant colours – often occuring at the same time on the same leaf . Sugar maple woodwind is extremely desirable for flooring and piece of furniture veneers . It is considerably known as the informant of maple sirup and sugar boiled down from sap collected in the early saltation . An outstanding shade tree , boodle maple rarely transcend 75 feet in home landscape . Trees thrive in sun or shade and in the Catskill gradient ' rich , dampish soil . They suffer in prolonged in high spirits temperatures .

Eastern Red Cedar

easterly red-faced cedar ’s ( Juniperus virginiana ) remarkable cold , heat and drought tolerance induce it most fertile cone - brook Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in the easterly United States . The first English settlers in North America at North Carolina ’s Roanoke colony used red cedar ’s crisply fragrant wood in their cabins and fencing . Red cedar ’s silver - gray barque gain an attractive combination with its dark - special K to dark green leaves . diminished gamy berries come about on distaff Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in the fall . Red cedar likes dry , sandy or loamy pH - neutral soils but is n’t particular about light . It does well in caliche ( grease high in limestone ) . Birds and small mammal feed on its berries

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