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large trees in order to get quick shade. Medium or even small trees 

 will often give good shade as soon as large trees, and they are always 

 healthy and sound when they do get large. 



2. Digging and Handling of Trees. — The greatest of care should be 

 taken in digging the trees to secure plenty of good roots, and that with- 

 out bruising them. Again, the trees should never be exposed to the air 

 any longer than is absolutely necessary. Handle carefully. Put them in 

 ground as quickly as can be done. Heel them in at once, so that the air 

 will not injure them. Never leave them out if the air is frosty. In 

 fact, do not dig ihem if it is frosty weather. 



More trees are lost from careless handling than from any other 

 cause. Remember that the trees are alive and that they cannot be kept 

 alive in any better way than to keep their roots covered with earth. Roots 

 out of ground are like fish out of water ; it is only a question of time how 

 soon they will die. 



3. Planting the Trees. — Dig large holes, especially if the trees have 

 to be planted in a sod. Have plenty of loose soil in the bottom of the 

 holes and plant carefully, being sure that you get the soil in contact with, 

 every root of the tree. As soon as the roots are thus covered, tramp the 

 ground well and then fill up the holes and tramp again, leaving the trees 

 just about as deep as they stood in the nursery and no deeper. Trim 

 the tops slightly so as to equalize with the roots and still leave some of 

 the young wood growth so as to assist in the development of leaf sur- 

 face. Without leaf surface you can have no root growth and hence no- 

 tree growth. It is a great mistake to cut off all the top to a square stump^ 

 In fact we should use no tree, if possible, where this has to be done. 



4. List of Trees. — . < 

 Deciduous : Sugar maple, elm, box elder, white ash, tulip, linn, 



chestnut, oak, sycamore, cut -leaf birch. 



Evergreens: Norway spruce, red cedar, white pine, Scotch pine, 

 white spruce, arbor vitae, savin, dwarf pine, pyramidal arbor vitae and 

 dwarf arbor vitae. 



Shrubs : Forsythia, lilac, snowball deutzia, weigelia, syringia, althea, 

 japonica, spireas, hydrangea red bud, dogwood. 



Roses : Madame Plantier, General Jacqueminot, John Hopper, La 

 Reine, General Washington, La France, Madame Charles Wood, Paul 

 Neron, Seven Sisters, Prairie Queen. 



Climbing Plants : American ivy, bitter sweet, Japan ivy, honey- 

 suckles, trumpet creeper. 



5. Take care of the trees and they will repay you. 



Canst thou tell, little tree, 



What the glory of thy boughs will be? 



