The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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LAWN TREES OF FAST GROWTH. 



Bv T. W. Grovkk, 



THERE are now several nurser- 

 ies near the principal cities of 

 the Eastern States making a busi- 

 ness of supphing large trees, twenty 

 or thirty feet in height, for newly 

 made premises, and all the nursery- 

 men say the demand for large trees 

 is increasing. Purchasers insist on 

 inmiediate effect, and, generally, re- 

 gardless of expense, want a tree that 

 will cast a shadow on the lawn to- 

 day rather than a seedling in which 

 is only a hope of a tree some day in 

 the future. 



The forest planter, of course, is 

 more concerned in securing a good 

 seedling of any size and at a cost of 

 money and trouble not too great to 

 be calculated by the acre. A forest, 

 containing the largest per centage of 

 thrifty trees, is far more attractive 

 than a single specimen of the greatest 

 beauty when profit is considered in 

 the planting. 



The removal of these large trees is 

 not difficult. The system of preserv- 

 ing a large ball of earth has been 

 abandoned, and it is found that, pro- 

 perly transplanting just after the 

 death of the leaf and before its fall, 

 the large tree is not more trouble 

 than smaller trees or more risk on 

 our Canadian lawns. If we were pay- 

 ing five dollars each for trees, we 

 would probably get discouraged if 

 we found a percentage of loss, which 

 we would not notice in trees at five 

 dollars per hundred. 



H.A., Norwood, O.st. 



Witliout waiting for the time when 

 we will have millionaire planters, we 

 may have very handsome lawns by 

 a little more pains taken with some 

 of our fast-growing ordinary trees. 

 Xo one but a nurseryman would 

 believe the difference cultivation and 

 care will make in the growth of any 

 tree, or we would see more labor 

 spent on nearly all our lawns. 



The best known American tree 

 fanciers who have laid out lawns, 

 which are now of scientific interest, 

 usually cultivate all the soil about 

 their tree, or groups of trees, as well 

 as thoroughly fertilize and mulch 

 them just as much as a fruit grower. 

 The commonest tree we have, such 

 as white ash, maple or spruce, will 

 make more than ten times the growth 

 when cared for properly than in a 

 close sod or overrun with weeds. 

 The size of the tree, as well as de- 

 velopment of flowers and seeds or 

 fruit, is directly dependent on the 

 chance the tree has. 



The small spruce, commonly sold 

 by the hundred, will hardly live at 

 all in a state of neglect, and it takes 

 a large tree of any kind to hold its 

 own in some places we see trees 

 planted. . 



To secure trees on an entirely new 

 lawn it should be well cultivated and 

 underdrained as if for gardening or 

 farming, and, after being well man- 

 ured and free from weeds and being 

 allowed to lie over all winter, it may 



