144 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



If to be auxiliary to a society like yours means to be fostered in 

 our horticultural purposes and aided in our efforts at work by kind 

 official visits to our society with the privilege and duty on our part to 

 reciprocate as lar as able, we feel honored to be recognized and will 

 do what we can. 



SHADE AND ORNAMENTAL TREES. 



BY M. J. ROUNDTREE, SPRINGFIELD, MO. 



The subject of shade and ornamental trees is one of great interest 

 and is attracting the attention of all classes, especially the owners of 

 homes, large or small, to a greater extent than ever before. The home 

 (unless it is a new one) that is not ornamented with at least a few shade 

 and ornamental trees is exceptional, and the owner of such home is 

 generally set down as altogether deficient in taste and in those finer 

 characteristics which should be found in all heads of families. A home 

 (it such it could be called), which is entirely destitute of ^rees, shrubs 

 and flowers, notwithstanding it may boast of a fine mansion and be 

 complete in all of its appointments so far as buildings are concerned, 

 yet the entire absence of shade and ornamental trees, shrubs and 

 flowers would render such place bleak and cheerless in the extreme, 

 and the occupants of such a home, no odds how well provided for, could 

 never feel that just and well merited pride in and true love for it as 

 they would for the same home or even d cheaper one which was tast- 

 fully ornamented with a select collection of the finest shade trees, etc. 

 But the principal object of this essay is to refer to and enumerate a 

 few of the many varieties of shade and ornamental trees that can be 

 grown in this locality with perfect safety and full assurance of the 

 highest results, so far as beauty, utility and great longevity is con- 

 cerned. And as most planters desire to plant at least a fair percentage 

 of their shade trees so as to make quick growth, and secure shade at the 

 earliest time possible, I would recommend the white or soft maple as 

 one of the most desirable for th.^s purpose. And this rapid growing 

 tree, if properly cut back at the proper intervals, can be formed into 



