94 LANDSCAPE-GARDENING 



in summer, so that trees grow to great size. If it 

 was merely a question of dollars, a forest growth 

 covering the bottom lands and steep hillsides along 

 our smaller rivers would have paid well, since the 

 value of the yearly growth would be more than an 

 ordinary farm crop. But one should also con- 

 sider the beauty which such a growth would 

 insure. 



As seen from a balloon or flying machine, the 

 courses of streams would be shown by the irregular 

 growth of forest. As observed from adjoining farms? 

 there would be bays and promontories of foliage, 

 giving pleasing lights and shadows. There would 

 be a beautiful sky-line. 



The bordering growth would show at the extreme 

 height the tops of oaks, tulip trees, elms, maples, 

 ash trees of various kinds, sycamores, beeches, lin- 

 dens, which, in any of the middle states, might reach 

 a height of over one hundred feet and have trunks 

 with diameters ranging from three to five feet. The 

 lower growth would include ironwoods, blue beeches, 

 thorn-apples, crab-apples, red-buds, dogwoods, vi- 

 burnums, hazel bushes, elderberries, roses, wild crabs, 

 Virginia creepers, bittersweet, goldenrod, asters, and 

 other plants, producing a growth so beautiful that 



