Trees 



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The little diagram of tree arrangement around a dwelling is 

 given as a study in shade only, and to illustrate the manner of 

 finding out what results any given arrangement of trees will give. 

 At noon, with the sun approximately a httle south of overhead, 

 the trees will cast their 

 shortest and least shad- PT''^ 

 ow, and this will of course 

 fall on their north side. 

 The object is to place 

 them where this shadow 

 as it swings on towards 

 the east and lengthens, in 

 the hottest part of the 

 day, is seen at its maxi- 

 mum from the house. 



This has been effected 

 with every tree as here 

 shown save the two small ones in the upper left hand comer, and 

 the single one opposite on the right. The latter is placed to cut 

 off the hot sun of early morning, while the two former, which 

 might very well be some tall, spire-like tree such as the Lombardy 

 poplar, will stretch their lengthening shadows aroimd as the day 

 wanes, until they reach along the grass to the house at sunset. 

 The tree nearest the house is fifteen feet from it and, though the 

 shade of several will fall on the building's foimdations and part 

 of the lower story at some hour of the day, the building itself is 

 actually in the open, and the sim has free access to every side. 



In passing it is worth while to remark that a house pla'ced thus 

 at an angle to the points of the compass enjoys the greatest 

 number of those advantages which arise from svm and weather. 

 Every room has sunlight for a little while daily, winter and sum- 



Arrangement of trees showing their mid-day 

 shadows, which should fall on the ground 

 about the house rather than on the building 



