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the most beautiful yellow-flowering trees in existence. 

 It must be grown slowly in the lawn or where the roots of 

 other trees keep the soil in a rather poor condition, although 

 enough plant-food must be applied to produce a fair amount 

 of wood. 

 American Beech -{Fagus grandlfoUa). — ^This is one of 



Fig. 96. — English Hawthorn {Crat(Pgus Oxycantha). 



the finest American trees, but requires a cool moist soil and 

 protection from the hot sun. It is so difficult to transplant 

 that it is not often seen in cultivated grounds, and is rather 

 objectionable as a lawn-tree on account of the leaves, which 

 adhere to the branches nearly all winter, even more closely 

 than the white oak leaves. Under some conditions on a 

 large place and among groups of evergreens the very light 



