TREES 



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To illustrate this scheme of planting from the diagram, the 

 two trees of smaller diameter than the others, in the upper left- 

 hand or western corner, are Lombardy poplars. Assuming 

 that the soil is a good average one we may select for the five trees 

 next to these, leading to the front, red maple. This has already 

 been mentioned at the head of the maple family. In addition 

 to being a tall, upright growing tree which, at maturity, furnishes 

 shade from high up, somewhat after the manner of an elm, it is 

 a wonder of beauty in early spring when the clusters of bright 

 red flowers open, long before the leaves. It is indeed spring's 

 most advanced herald among the trees, and in autumn it is again 

 a blaze of glory in the scarlet of its foliage. 



Next to the red maples, out at the boundary in front, a silver 

 birch may stand alone. Coming back to the eastern corner of 

 the house, plant a linden nearest, for its fragrance, with a sixth 

 red maple shouldering it and a seventh bringing up the rear in 

 the northern corner. 



For special soils selections may be made from the lists given ; 

 or, better still, a choice determined by letting it fall, wherever 

 possible, on trees that have at some time flourished in the locality 

 and that may consequently be depended upon to do well. 



LISTS OF TREES 

 FOR POOR SOIL 



i Betula populifolia: poplar-leaved birch; forty feet high; 

 has the smooth ashy- white bark characteristic of so many 

 birches; not a long-lived tree, yet valuable for a dry and 

 deserted sterile ground. 



2 Prunus serotina: wild black cherry; one hundred feet high; 



