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have their choice of pic, and we please them when we furnish it, and 

 they grow. We have sandy, gravelly, rocky, clayey, peaty, loamy, lime- 

 stone and granitic soils, and each carries the kind of food preferred by 

 the trees that grow naturally where such soil is found. 



We find the botanical gardens are importing soil in which to plant 

 the trees they wish to raise. 



We have a few rural beauties that seem to stand city life with its 

 smoke, gas, neglect, butchery and starvation, while they have country 

 cousins that absolutely refuse to grow where there are such things. They 

 say, "we are satisfied with our fresh air, clean rains and natural leaf 

 mulching, and we just won't live in such filth as our city cousins endure 

 just to stay in town." 



We find regular aristocrats among trees. O, so prim, upright, uni- 

 form, neat in outline and form, and they never look well unless they are 

 on neat-cut lawns and surrounded with well-edged walks and drives 

 and exact lines in architecture. 



Again we find the plebian among trees. Angular, irregular in 

 outline, crooked, snarled, twisted, careless, but rigid and picturesque, how 

 out of place in the average city lawn, with its exact surface and sodded 

 area, but how picturesque when hanging out from a rocky bluff or 

 weathering the storm on the hill top, or bending out over the lake bor- 

 der. They make picturesque landscapes more picturesque. 



We find that certain trees go best with certain styles of architecture, 

 and we choose our trees to bring out certain lines in the architectural 

 structure. We want certain forms to make the frame work of vistas 

 in the landscape ; others, of dense growth, are selected to screen off and 

 hide objectionable views or features. 



The seasons all have their honored tree, as the ages have their 

 honored statesmen, and a very improper selection of trees would be 

 those that are all beautiful at one time or one season of the year and 

 only give shade and unattractive outline during the remaining seasons. 



In selecting for the seasons we must consider the ever-changing habit 

 of the tree, the form and color of the flower, fruit, bark, at the various 

 seasons, and select so each season has its attractions. 



Knowing all the wants of trees is education. This is gained by 

 study and observation. But to know how to use them is art, and the 

 innate taste of the landscape architect is manifested in his work, and 

 he cannot turn this work over to any person and expect that person to 

 accomplish what he might do, and when you pay for his work and get 

 that of another you have been deceived and he has obtained money 

 under false pretenses. 



