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tulip tree will compare favorably with the hard maple in height, beauty 

 and symmetrical proportion, and is also free from destructive insects. 

 The sycamore is recommended, but the peeling off bark is a nuisance, and 

 its leaves drop too early. The white ash is good, and also the red oak, 

 pin oak and white oak. The soft maple and linden are fairly good, but 

 the wood is too soft for exposed places, and consequently are super- 

 seded by the better ones mentioned. The box elder is condemned. The 

 birch is a slow growing tree, but the white bark is a great ornament and 

 sliould find a place on every larger home ground. Nothing will equal 

 for quick results the tall growing Lombardy poplar, which will grow in 

 three years under favorable circvmistances to the height of a medium 

 sized telegraph pole. The Carolina poplar is short lived and affected 

 by borers, but will make a good showing in three or four years, and 

 will cover about five times the space a hard maple would in this time. 

 For home grounds there is nothing that will beat the American sweet 

 chestnut. Its foliage is clean and beautiful, the growth is pyramidal and 

 symmetrical^ and stem is straight from bottom to top. It is the ideal tree 

 in every way, and in less than ten years will form the most ornamentrd 

 burrs and the most delicious nuts in quantity. The latter makes this 

 tree unfit for street planting, as the boys will ruin the trees to secure 

 the half ripe nuts. It is different in the yard, where the trees will deliver 

 the nuts to the ground as soon as they are ready. 



The list of evergreens for us is small, and the best ones found are 

 the Scotch, Austrian and White Pine, with long needles. They will 

 grow nearly fifteen feet in fifteen years. The Norway. Colorado blue 

 and white spruce, with their short needles, do also real well, and grow 

 quite fast. The balsam fir is very ornamental for about fifteen years, but 

 after that it doesn't look well. Arbor vitae and juniper in varieties will 

 adorn a place a great deal and specially while young. They are thrifty 

 and beautiful, but do not grow tall in this section. Evergreens can be 

 transplanted easily, if well bagged, separately, with balls, and should 

 not be out of the ground any longer than a day or two. The tops 

 should be watered more than the roots after transplanting. A north 

 side will bring better results than any other exposure. No trees will 

 adorn more than a number of well grown evergreens, which will serve 

 you every day in the year for a life time. 



I would like to mention something about the revolution in tree 

 trimming, and w'ould say no ornamental tree should be trimmed from 

 above, as it will ruin a tree, but trim from below, and in time as high 

 as the cornice of a two-story building. Trim every year or two, to 

 avoid the cutting of large limbs. This will give air, hght, shade and 



