CHAPTER XII 



ARBORICULTURE AND ORNAMENTAL 

 PLANTING 



ALTHOUGH ornamental planting does not belong in a 

 book on forestry, it has to do with trees, and popular 

 demand requires that a few of the important points be 

 taken up briefly. The foregoing chapters on the handling 

 and growth of trees in groves and plantations make it easy 

 to deal with the individual tree or small group. 



Lawn trees are usually grown for one of two purposes : 

 ornament and shade, or the hiding of some unsightly object. 

 In either case, it is necessary to have hardy trees that can 

 stand the cold of winter and the hot winds of summer 

 without becoming stunted and scrawny in shape. 



The trees selected for such planting need not be chosen 

 from the list of trees that are suitable for forest plantations 

 in that region. The more careful selection of location, 

 the more thorough care and cultivation that may be 

 practiced with the individual tree, make it possible to grow 

 successfully many species that could not succeed under 

 plantation conditions. Such species are always more or 

 less of a risk, but the added interest in growing a tree that 

 is a stranger to the region makes the chance worth while. 

 If shade and ornament is the object, care should be taken to 

 select trees which will produce this effect. Often trees of 

 ugly form and appearance are placed where much better 

 species could easily be grown. The only excuse for an ugly 



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