TREES AND SHRUBS ABOUT THE HOME. 



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Of my choice shade trees I will mention the Norway maple, 

 European birch, white elm and white ash. I call them all choice, 

 but the Norway maple is the choicest, and indeed a fine shade tree 

 and should be planted on every town lot. 



'Sly white birch, planted on an east hillside ten years ago, has 

 proved to be a very rapid grower and is now a healthy looking 

 tree of good size. My weeping birch, a much younger tree, is more 

 ornamental. 



The white elm is a good shade tree and can hardly be beaten 

 for a street tree. 



Fountain Lake, fronting Residence of J. O. Share, Albert Lea. 



A white ash, planted ten years ago, is a very tall, fine looking 

 tree. The white ash is well adapted both as a shade tree and a forest 

 tree. 



Among my flowering shrubs I think as much of the Persian lilac 

 as any. It is one of the first ones to get green in the spring and 

 stays green the longest in the fall, and when in bloom is a perfect 

 beauty. It does not send up suckers like some other lilacs, but grows 

 into a fine bush in one place, and even looks well on the lawn in win- 

 ter. And then I have the spirea \'an Houtii, that is one of the 

 beauties, and the hydrangea is another. Both of these should adorn 

 everv home. 



