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Why Not Fruit Trees ? 



Tell ns, if yoa know any good reason for planting maples, elms 

 and tbe like, along the roadsides, in place of the practically useful 

 cherries, chestnuts, walnuts, and other fruit trees, especially out in 

 the country where the depredations of fruit-hungry city boys are not 

 much to be feared. Or if one must have forest trees, why not the 

 linden that will after a while enable our bees to gather the choicest 

 honey in abundance ! 



Fruit in Spain. 



When a Spaniard eats a peach or pear by the roadside, wherever 

 he is, he digs a hole in the ground with his foot and covers the seed. 

 Consequently, all over Spain by the roadside and elesewhere, fruit in 

 great abundance tempts the taste, and may be picked and eaten by 

 anybody. This fruit is a great boon to tired and thirsty travelers. — 

 The Garden. 



Evergreens For Ornament. 



We tind the list for this purpose quite an extensive one. In addi- 

 tion to those named for shelter belts, I would particularly mention the 

 arbor vit.nes for low ornamental hedge purposes, of which the Ameri- 

 can justly takes the lead; the spruce, white and blue; the red cedars, 

 Austrian pine, cluster pine and balsam fir, for its compact growth, 

 beautiful color and symmetrical shape. I would place the blue spruce 

 at the head of the list for single specimens in lawn planting. For 

 grouping in parks and large grounds, the pines and Norway spruces 

 are excellent. As a rule those single specimens have to be planted in 

 the sod. If properly done this is all right, but it is a waste of time, 

 effort and money to chuck an evergreen or any other tree, in fact, into 

 a tough sod, where only a small hole has been dug barely large enough 

 to receive the roots. The right way is to cut out a nice true circle, at 

 least four feet across, peel off the sod and replace with nice mellow 

 earth, spading the whole up together thoroughly and deeply, and plant 



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