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..all the air spaces to be filled with slush and dirt, therefore making it a 

 solid mass. A tree does not have to be drowned to live. If you use 

 too much water on trees planted in a retentive or clay soil, you lessen 

 the chance of their living. If the soil is porous, you cannot injure 

 them so easily, but you can make the soil sour, — "continuous damp- 

 ness" is the proper term. If soil has been soured, a little air-slacked 

 lime or pulverized charcoal vi'orked into the soil will sweeten it. 



After trees are properly planted, they should be carefully staked, 

 either by using three wires placed high enough up on the stem of the 

 tree to prevent shaking, and three stakes driven down at equal distances 

 in a circle around the tree, to which wire should be fastened, leaving 

 the trees perfectly upright when finished. Or, a two-by-four or pole 

 six or eight feet long can be used alone by driving it into the ground 

 at an angle of about 45 degrees and leaving it about three or four 

 feet up the stem of the tree. This stake method is a good one, for the 

 stake can be put in a line with the tree row, if planted in rows, and 

 therefore be out of the way of the horse cultivator. Where the wire 

 and also the stake comes in contact with the tree, they should be 

 covered with burlap or some soft material and the stake bound tightly 

 to the tree, either with rope or wire. If wire is used, put some burlap 

 around the stem of the tree. 



We have some fine native ornamental trees, viz.: Oak, Ash, Elm, 

 Maple, Walnut, Hackberry, Linden, Redbud and Haws, the latter grow 

 along the esatern edge of the state. I will name a few of the less 

 common varieties, and state where growing. 



Buckeye is found in good size in the eastern part of the state. 



Catalpa Bungeii is growing in Omaha, and the writer saw some 

 fine specimens in York, Neb., planted three years ago. 



Japan Walnuts were also seen in York, also Magnolia acuminata. 

 This latter tree grows south of Plattsmouth, a specimen twenty-five 

 feet high growing there. 



Golden Poplar, twenty feet high, is growing in Omaha, also some 

 specimens of red and white flowering Thorn. 



Tulip trees seem to do well both north and south, for at Table 

 Rock and Fremont fine specimens may be found. 



In Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, a specimen of deciduous Cypress 

 may be found, though of somewhat retarded growth. 



