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and public highways native hardy kinds, and of thrifty growth, and not 

 subject to split or break by storms are most desireable, such as Kock 

 or Sugar Maple, Elm, Ash, Linden, Sycamore, Cottonwood, Chestnut, 

 Hickory, Walnut and Oak. The nutbearing trees have long tap roots 

 and do not succeed well unless they have been well root-pruned pre- 

 vious to being transplanted. 



For lawns and ornamental grounds some of the foregoing deciduous 

 trees may be used if desired, to which others may be added, such as 

 Wier's cut-leaved Maple, Norway Maple, Cut-leaved Weeping Birch, 

 Horse Chestnuts (in variety), Cut-leaved Alder, Purple-leaved Filbert, 

 Everllowering Weeping Cherry, Judas Tree or Red Bud, Purple-leaved 

 Beech, Aucubaleaved Ash, Golden Barked Weeping Ash, Weeping 

 Tooth-leaved Mountain Ash, Weeping European Linden, Eed Fern- 

 leaved Linden, Tea's Catalpa, Wahoo and Tulip tree or Poplur. Coni- 

 fers, White Pine, Hemlock, Balsam Fir, Double Spruce, Arborvitae, 

 ^all American). Norway Spruce, Austrian and Scotch Pine, Siberian 

 Arborvitte, Compacta and Savin, the two latter Dwarfs. To which 

 might be added many others as well as a great many handsome hardy 

 shrubs and Howers, which we fail to have room at this time to mention. 



Z. S. RAGAjST. 



Independence, Mo., June 7, 1886. 



FARMERS WIVES AS FLORISTS. 



BY MRS. MARIE RODEMYER OF CENTRALIA. 



No one possesses the advantage of the farmer's wife in surround- 

 ing her home with beautiful and attractive floral decoration. The 

 farmer's wife should be a florist, her ample grounds gives such fine ad- 

 vantage for the display of taste and inginuity in floral arrangement. It 

 requires something of the eye of an artist at first to form and arrange 

 flower beds satisfactory. The love of floraculture can be cultivated 



