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winds that blow; where the mercury often gets 

 and stays below zero. This screen is twelve or 

 fourteen feet high and has doorways cut through 

 it. It is very old and must have been closely 

 clipped for generations, yet it is apparently in 

 perfect condition, effectively sheltering an old 

 farmhouse. 



The best trees to use in planting a small estate, 

 in the order given, are: 



DECIDUOUS 

 Pin Oak 

 White Oak 

 Red Oak 



Swamp, or Red, Maple 

 Elm (uncertain on ac- 

 count of insects) 

 Norway Maple 

 Sugar Maple 

 Linden, or Basswood 

 Copper Beech 

 Tulip, or Whitewood 

 Lombardy Poplar 

 Larch 



EVERGREEN 

 White Pine 

 Native Hemlock 

 Nordmann's Fir 

 Arbor Vitse occidentalis, 



for walls and screens 

 Arbor Vifoe pyramida- 



lis, for semi-formal 



effects 

 Red Cedar 

 Norway Spruce 

 Irish Juniper 



