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the general rule which applies to other trees is the proper one to observe 

 in the removal of Evero;reens. 



A good deal has been written of the advantages of night transplanting. 

 While there is little force in the plan, still the same argument that would 

 advocate a dark day would favor a night for transplanting. During the 

 shock of the process, if there is movement of the sap, the hours of com- 

 parative rest that can be given the tree, are of importance. To this end, a 

 tree planted at evening twilight stands a better chance for life than one 

 planted at dawn, with a day of bright sunshine before it. 



The habit of planting trees is a good one to indulge. We are all of us 

 more or less creatures of habit, and some habits seem to be more catching 

 than others. I wish that the tree planting habit might be a contagious one. 

 It is true that certain phases of tree planting will go through a community, 

 if well started. Who of you does not recall some neighborhood where the 

 Lombardy Poplar has had this run? at one time it even spread over the 

 whole of France. The Elm planting habit, a most delfghtful one, had its 

 day in New England, and now its result is the pride of the whole Yankee 

 nation. The roadside planting of maples has captured whole communities 

 to the betterment of the landscape. Just now in my own state, in many 

 localities, the Box Elder is having its run. A friend of mine living in Chi- 

 cago is a great lover of shrubs and their employment in landscape effects. 

 He set the example in a most delightful way some years ago. I have 

 watched the result, and today many very beautiful places owe their 

 attractiveness to the fact that their owners followed his good example. 



Some of the old trees that we planted in an early day that now give 

 character to our landscape and home places, owe the fact of their existence 

 to the thoughtfulness of some one who planted under tribulation. On my 

 own home farm, a row of Walnuts, that are appreciated not only by the 

 lover of trees, but the boy lover of nuts, is the result of a desire on the part 

 of the first young housewife in the new country to have growing about her 

 the walnuts that she so much missed in departing from her old home. The 

 nuts were planted in the corners of the worm fence, and now, sixty years 

 later, we look back with gratitude upon this fact in early pioneer life. 



In my boyhood days, I was told how desirable it was to imitate the habit 

 of Gladstone, to take an ax and chop down a tree as an appetizer for 

 breakfast. I would rather indulge in a boy the habit of planting a tree, 

 rather than its destruction. 



One of the most delightful events connected with a trip, some time ago, 

 through England, was a visit to Dropmore, a delightful estate just outside 

 of London. Its characteristic feature is its tree planting. Here are gath- 

 ered the most attractive trees from all parts of the earth, planted at differ- 

 ent times during the last sixty-five years. They are single and in groups, 

 and so arranged as to give the manor from views without, the semblance of 

 a great forest; but once pass through the interior, the visitor finds each 

 species of trees somewhere upon the estate was so arranged as to grow 

 naturally to its full size and perfected beauty. At its base is a label giv- 

 ing its name, its habitat, and the date of the planting. Here I saw a 

 Douglas Spruce, that grandest of all our mountain evergreens, that had been 

 planted in 1889, and now stood at a height of 160 feet with 80 feet in 

 spread of limb, and a diameter of trunk about 4 feet. Other trees of as 

 great importance, but possibly not so striking in appearance, attracted my 

 attention. The facts I had before me, and the illustration of what a 

 definite number of years can do in the growth of trees under favorable 



