SHADE TREE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Shade tree

... there were none. The shaggy-mane often furnishes a surprise of this kind. In our lawns we are accustomed to a pretty bit of greensward with clumps of shrubbery, and here and there the overhanging branches of some shade tree. On some fine morning when we find a whole flock of these shaggy-manes, which have sprung up during the night, we can imagine that some such kind of a surprise must have come to Browning when he ...

— Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. • George Francis Atkinson

... I. "Of course it's merely in embryo. It's wonderful how quickly any shade tree will grow ...

— Lin McLean • Owen Wister