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air and sunshine as it can. It spreads over the larg- 

 est possible space for the sun to kiss. The red elm is 

 quite another thing and has never lost its woodland 

 ways. It loses its lower limbs, but has never learned 

 how to run up aloft and spread out a canopy, like the 

 white elm. 



While planting the Kentucky coffee tree, one must 

 know that the female grows almost as erect as a 

 Lombardy poplar, while the male tree spreads out 

 through a surface of thirty feet in diameter. It 

 needs a good deal of this preliminary knowledge 

 of trees to avoid serious blunders. While the maple 

 is always charming for shade, you must know this 

 one thing, that if trimmed up after it has attained 

 size, the sun striking the bark will surely split it. 

 Then will set in the worms and death. 



The scarlet maple is peculiarly beautiful, and bet- 

 ter yet is that variety of the scarlet which we call 

 swamp maple. I advise you to go into a marshy 

 place in the fall and note the wonderful variety of 

 coloring among the maples; then mark two or three 

 of the more beautiful for transplanting. 



There are, however, three trees, yes, four, that I 

 place ahead of all others for single lawn trees. The 

 first of these is the beech. It is rather slow growing 

 and needs room. One tree is quite enough for a 

 small lawn, much better than a crowd of elbowed 

 affairs. The beech naturally heads out very low, 

 giving you just room under the limbs for a rustic 

 seat and a bit of a lawn party. 



