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vol. vi. 24 Numbers. 



CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 15, 1897. 



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 10 Cents. 



NO. 121. 



THE COREAN PINE (Pi"„s Koraiensis) AT DOSORIS 



Trees and Shrubs. 



FINE TREES FOR THE GARDEN. 



As we generally come upon pine trees 

 cultivated in gardens or wild in the 

 woods they are naked stemmed near the 

 ground. Now this is proper in the forest 

 where by reason of growing close together 

 they have tall, straight trunks and un- 

 branched except towards the top, which 

 gives us clean timber with few knots. If 

 left to themselves in the garden, and they 

 have lots of room for the first ten or fil- 

 teen years of their life, they may be well 

 branched from the ground up, but about 

 this time the lower branches are apt to 

 begin to die and the vigor of the trees 

 runs up into the tops. And we have 

 known over ambitious folk to actually 



saw off the lower limbs from their pine 

 and other evergreen trees — "trim them 

 up" — so that they might see under them 

 and let the grass grow. Ugh, what 

 depravity! The beauty of a garden tree 

 is in its fullness and perfection of form 

 from the ground up. 



Just look at this beautiful Corean pine 

 (Pinus Koraiensis) as it is growing at 

 Dosoris; it is 20 feet 7 inches in height 

 and 23 feet 2 inches in diameter of spread 

 of branches on the ground, a garden model 

 and void of any stiffness. Such a tree as 

 this is would be the just pride of any gar- 

 den. Then think of the sacrilegious wretch 

 who would dare to chop off its lower lim os 

 so that he could get a view away under 

 it! The tree is perhaps 25 years old 

 and in the fulness of health and vigor and 

 without a visible sign of exhaustion. It 

 has lots of room and the land is fairly 



good; it was held down at the top during 

 its earlier life to encourage a spread of 

 lower branches and in later years neither 

 top nor side branches were allowed to 

 rush forth beyond the symmetrical pro- 

 portions of the specimen as a wh le, and 

 still it was' never pruned, a little timel}- 

 pinching of the erratic young growths in 

 May and June, a few minutes' work at 

 most, once a year, was all the trimming 

 it received. 



For small gardens this Corean pine is 

 one of the best to plant. But all things 

 considered for quite small gardens the 

 Swiss stone pine (P. cembra) takes prece- 

 dence. 



The Austrian pine is the best of our all- 

 purpose pines, being the most available 

 for shelter belts, but not long-lived; the 

 Scotch pine is good for the same purpose, 

 but in my practice not so good as the 



