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of their nature and habit. They should be i)laced near a mass 

 of fohage and not in the center of a lawn. This method of 

 treatment is possible in large estates : smaller suburban grounds 

 can grow but few trees as individuals. 



In choosing trees for the home grounds they must be selected 

 \^^th care as to the exposure, ultimate size, rapidity of growth, 

 length of Hfe, adaptabihty to the soil, as well as to the general 

 landscape effect. As a pattern for a mixed plantation of 

 trees the native woods should be studied, \vith their compo- 

 sition of various kinds of trees that have been planted by 

 nature's method of the winds, the birds and the animals carry- 

 ing seeds and nuts, storing them for future use. We ha^'e but 

 to open our eyes and look at the landscape as the seasons 

 advance, and, as the sunlight and shadow pass across the woods, 

 we may see many pictures, that if painted by an artist in oil 

 on canvas, we should be ready to criticise and discredit. 



Some of the reasons why trees die after transplanting are: — 



Because they have lost too many of their roots ; 



Because after they were dug from the ground or unwrapped 

 from the nursery package they were too much exposed to the 

 sun and dry air; 



Because the soil was not packed tightly around the roots 

 when they were planted, they rock back and forth ; 



Because the soil was too wet where they were planted, no 

 drainage in the tree hole. Sometimes the soil is made very 

 wet and is of such a kind that when it dries it bakes and keeps 

 out the air; 



Because the soil in which the tree was j)lanted dried out 

 too (juickly. 



Trees have been described as of rapid and slow growth. 

 The following list will give the average size that a tlu-ee-inch 

 sapling will develop in twenty years under favorable con- 

 ditions. The height to which each kind of tree attains in the 

 same period will be in the usual proportion to the diameter. 

 Th(^ height to which the trees attain when fully grown, with 



