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and not the attractiveness of grace. Iron is not beautiful, 

 yet it may be wrought into ornamental forms, and beauti- 

 ful shapes. Its hard uses and homely positions are modified 

 by fine designs and pleasing outlines. In ornamental trees 

 some good effects may be produced by combinations and 

 trainings, but the best effect will come from selecting trees 

 ornamental as single specimens and giving ample room to 

 each for full development. Of course we would not ignore 

 evergreen hedges which may be very ornamental if not too 

 rigidly trained so as to lose the natural in the artificial. 



To depend wholly upon style of arrangement is a mistake. 

 If trees are planted in rows or in pairs, or in other designs 

 so one will depend upon another for good effect then all must 

 be alike or discord is the result. It is almost impossible to 

 keep trees alike as time goes on, no matter how carefully 

 selected and cared for. 



Better plant so each tree depends upon itself for its pleas- 

 ing effect, contrasting or blending with others no matter 

 what their relative growth may be. 



Overplanting about dwellings is a very general fault. 

 From four to ten times as many trees are planted as are 

 needed. The little evergreen tree or the slim elm just from 

 the nurseries may look lonesome if given all the room at 

 first that they will need after fifteen years of growth. As 

 years go by the trees till up and crowd, and because they 

 have cost care and labor, or because they have been petted 

 and loved when small we are very loth to destroy them as 

 years roll on. It takes faith to see that a white elm will 

 some day need four or five square rods of ground and that 

 a balsam fir will be all the tree needed on a space twenty - 

 five feet square. 



To plant a tree, especially an evergreen, close by a build- 

 ing, fence or wall, where the heat of summer sunshine is 

 radiated with great force is to court failure. Also plant- 

 ing where northwest winds sweep around buildings directly 

 upon the trees, particularly during winter. Better plant 

 where no such severe strains of heat or cold will tend to 

 permanent injury. 



We do not wish to say much about varieties of trees for 



