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of our trees. 1 1 is just as distinct as is the individuality of each per- 

 son in this room, and we lose one-half of our attractiveness when we 

 lose this characteristic. Just so with the trees, no two are just alike 

 and it is always well to preserve these distinctions and so it is neces- 

 sar}^ often to cut out surplus trees in order that we may retain this 

 individuality of each variety. Our tree well shaped and covering 

 50 or 100 feet of ground with its branches, is much more grand than 

 the same space covered by a clump of a half dozen. On my home place 

 I have cut out more than three times as many trees as I have left and 

 have thus retained the individuality of the trees. 



The elm, for instance, varies greatly from the tall, upright to the 

 low,- crooked, scraggly, drooping branches and it is absurd to try and 

 modify them by a variety of treatment, but treat them so as to induce 

 this peculiarity in each. 



VARIETIES FOR DIVERSE USES. 



1. For street trees. — Elm, sugar maple, Norway maple, Tulip, 

 linden, white ash, box elder, soft maple, sycamore, poplar, oaks. 



2. For lawns. — The same as above and birch, beach, larch, alder, 

 cypress, coffee tree, magnolia, oak, willow, sweet gum, sassafras, weep- 

 ing trees, elm, birch, beach, teas mulberry, Mt. ash, willow. 



3. For small places. — Mt. ash, thorn, beech, horse chesnut, mul- 

 berry, magnolia, Japan maples, maiden hair tree. 



4. For color of foliage. — Purple leaved beech, birch, plum, elm, 

 white leaf linden, scarlet maple, Japan maples, yellow and red leaved 

 oak. 



5. For flowers. — Double thorn and crab apple, double cherry, 

 acacia, magnolia, honey locust, catalpa, horse chestnut, dogwood, 

 large white and pink. 



6. For resistance to smoke. — Sycamore, ash, mulberry, coffee 

 tree, hackberry. 



7. For fruiting. — Crab apple, red hawthorn, wild cherry, Mt. 

 ash, persimmons, Russian olive, hop tree. 



8. For birds. — Russian mulberry, black cherry, Downing mul- 

 berry. 



9. For nut trees. — Chestnut, walnut, hickory, pecan, beech, chin- 

 quapin, burr oak, butternut. 



"How interesting it is to watch the plant industries as they are 

 carried on side by side, each doing its own work wisely and well, and 

 without exciting in the least the envy of its neighbor, and without 

 contention or strife. We see the maple collecting saccharine juices. 



