No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 619 



TREES AND SHRUBS FOR A SUBURBAN LAWN AND HOW 



TO MANAGE THEM. 



By JOSEPH MKBHAN, Philadelphia. 



Acting on the suggestion that great many persons are interested 

 in trees and shrubs and their proper arrangement on a lawn, and 

 that a few notes on the subject would certainly be interesting, it 

 gave me pleasure to promise to prepare a few notes on this topic, 

 to be read before you to-day. 



A very great deal of the pleasure anticipated by those who pur- 

 chase a new place and have it planted will never be realized if the 

 proper trees and shrubs are not selected and they are not placed 

 where they should be. This is the reason for the employment of a 

 competent person to plan the planting. A great many of those 

 who own grounds are, doubtless, as well able to plan as those em- 

 ployed, having in mind a tasteful and appropriate arrangement 

 of the trees and shrubs; but to know the character of the subjects, 

 whether tall growing or not, bushy or slim, of tapering or rounded 

 outline, and the season of flovrering, with many another point to be 

 thought of, are matters only those entirely familiar with trees and 

 shrubs know. It is this knowledge, combined with good taste, 

 the successful landscape gardener possesses. 



As will be understood from the foregoing remarks, what trees 

 and shrubs to plant depends entirely on the situation. A tree of 

 rounded outline is usually quite out of place near a tall building, 

 as it often is when in close proximity to a group of tall trees. Taste 

 comes in here, and those who possess it can quickly tell looking 

 en a place where trees have developed which, if any, are not in their 

 right positions. 



You will, therefore, see how very difficult it would be to give ad 

 vice what trees and shrubs to plant and where, unless to suit a 

 particular place. Had I a place large enough and of such a char- 

 acter as to permit of it, there are a number of trees I would not 

 like to be without, of which the following are a portion: Norway 

 maple, sugar maple, horse chestnut, cut-leaved birch, paper birch, 

 catalpa, Japanese double flowering cherry, judas tree, blood beech. 

 Kentucky coffee, Koelreuteria, larch, sweet gum, tulip tree. Magnolia 

 Fraseri, Magnolia tripetala, Paulownia, mountain ash, oaks, linden, 

 Salisburia, deciduous cypress, Sophora japonica and American elm. 



In the above list there are those of jjyramidal growth and those 

 making a rounded outline, some valued for their white bark, as, 

 for instance, the two birches, and others, such as the blood beech, 

 sweet gum and sugar maple, for beautiful foliage at some season 

 of the year, while chiefly for flowering, there are the horse chest- 

 nut, catalpa, flowering cherry, Judas tree, Koelreuteria, magno- 

 lias and others. 



And among small trees I would surely want the Japanese 



