22 OR]!fAME]S^TAL GARDEITING. 



treatment, as regards manuring, culture, and the impor- 

 tant point of summer watering. In small collections, 

 instead of those containing many thousands, as in the 

 case here referred to, better results might be expected. 

 As an illustration, I also give measurements made on the 

 banks of a lake, where the roots could take up an abund- 

 ance of moisture, and where the soil naturally abounded 

 in vegetable matter. It should be noticed, however, that 

 the measurements which follow, mostly apply to a class of 

 smaller growing trees than those named in the list abov^: 



Mulberry, 



Willow, 



Cut Leaved Bu'ch, 



Bird Cherry, 



Strong-gi-owing Shrubs, 



Dwarf -growing Shrubs, 



Downing tells of a Silver maple, tAvelve years planted, 

 that had a trunk one foot in diameter, and which made 

 shoots six feet long in one season. Hoopes describes a 

 Barroak, twelve years from the acorn, that was seventeen 

 feet high. We may occasionally meet trees and shrubs 

 growing wild, that have made growths equal to any in- 

 dicated by the figures here given. 



It is well to know that, as a rule, shrubby growths de- 

 velop signs of mature beauty sooner than do trees. 

 Planted in good soil, these take hold quickly, and in a 

 few years show beauty in habit, foliage, and flowers, that 

 is scarcely excelled in after years, though they may in- 

 crease in size. On this and other accounts I usually rec- 

 ommend a free use of the flowerinsf and other shrubs in 

 planting both large and small places. 



Planting is often delayed from year to year, until suffi- 

 cient time has passed to have allowed the trees to make 

 large growths, had they been set when first the idea was 

 entertained. Almost any shrub or tree, with good treat- 

 ment, may be counted on to reach a very pleasing size 

 in from two to six years from planting. How soon such 

 a period slips away ! 



