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to save the crop, but for some reason or other I had more wormy 

 apples than my neighbors. 



STREET AND ORNAMENTAL TREE PLANTING. 



BY A. DUNNING, DUNNING. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



The subject that has been assigned to me, Street and Orna- 

 mental Planting, is one worthy of a more fluent pen than mine. 

 It is a subject that could be enlarged upon sufficient to constitute 

 a volume; but I assure you I will be very short and try to come 

 directly to the point in the endeavor to give some of my ideas on 

 the subject. 



I will divide it into four sections: First, What to plant; 

 Second, Where to plant; Third, How to plant; and Fourth, the 

 After care. 



What to plant depends very much on the circumstances and 

 adaptability in reference to soil and the effect sought to be ob- 

 tained. 



For street planting, there is nothing better than elm, ash, linden, 

 and catalpa. In some, parts of the State where the soil is dry, 

 the hard maple I would class among the best; but, about Chicago 

 on our wet, black soil, it is about the poorest tree we can plant. 

 As to the lawn and grounds, I would increase the list of varieties 

 in proportion to the size of grounds. If there is room plant even 

 some of those not generally classed as hardy, and give them a 

 little protection during the winter, for a few years, and you will 

 be amply rewarded for the trouble in producing an effect, that can 

 only be attained by having a large variety. 



Where to plant is a subject that has puzzled a good many. 

 For street and sub-division planting, I would plant a double 

 row. On streets of sixty-six feet width, I would place the out- 

 side row eight feet from the lot line, in the street, and the inside 

 two feet inside, on the lot. Twenty-five feet apart is about 

 the right distance to plant. I would alternate the outside 

 row with elm and ash, and set linden and catalpa in the inside row 

 opposite the spaces on the outside. Of course this may be varied 

 according to the taste or the circumstances surrounding, but I 

 like the effect of planting different trees in rotation; it does not 

 produce the sameness that is obtained by planting one variety. 

 For the country I would not advise close planting on the streets* 

 as it has a tendency to make bad roads. Nevertheless plant just 

 the same and plant largely too. Place the trees in clumps and 

 groups in the corners of the fields ; and, if you will plant a cluster 

 at every forty acrs corner, it will serve to mark the boundaries, 

 besides breaking the wearisome monotony of our vast prairies. 



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