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Tliat in other eyes were lovelier. 



But not in mine so fair. 

 But those roses bright , oh those roses bright, 



I have twined them vvitli my sister's locks, 

 That are hid in dust from sight. 



xMETHOD IN THE ORNAMENTAL PLANTING OF SMALL 



PLAGES. 



BY K. E. BAILEY, FULTON, MO. 



Let US first look at a few real places that may be^seen in this 

 vicinity. Perhaps we will see more to condemn than to approve, 

 but we will at least see that almost every man makes some essay at 

 ornamental planting ; and a knowledge of the mistakes of others 

 fnay keep us from similar mistakes. Professor A, a teacher in a 

 western college, has a small yard in town, eight or ten feet wide 

 and thirty or forty feet long, in which he planted, some fifteen 

 years ago, four soft maples. His soil was very fertile and the 

 result may be imagined. The trees now tower far above his two- 

 story dwelling, sliutting out the air and sunshine. His wife and 

 one of his children have since died of consumption. Who knows 

 but that the exclusion of the health-giving sunlight may have been 

 one factor in^this sad result. 



Mr. B. has a front yard of about thirty by forty feet, in which 

 he has planted a dozen or more of these same soft maples, besides 

 an elm or two and a few evergreens. 



For the first few years the effect was not bad, but now as the 

 trees have grown large they begin to crowd the place, and in a few 

 more years his jAace will be as badly shut in as Prof. A.'s If these 

 two men had planted evergeens instead of deciduous trees the 

 result would have been worse yet. The evergreens would have 

 excluded the sunlight in winter when its admission is most desirable. 

 From these and many similar cases to be found in every part of the 

 country we may draw this caution : do not plant a small place 

 with an over-abandance of large growing kinds of trees. Look 

 forward to the future effect, and limit the size and number of trees 

 to accord with the size of the place planted. Too thick planting 

 could be partially remedied by cutting out some of the surplus 

 trees ; but I iiave found few men with nerve enough to destroy a 



