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tall and spindling, with a tuft of branches at the top, 

 which are cut back to stumpy projecting prongs, to cor- 

 respond to the necessary mutilated condition of the roots. 

 Such trees may survive, and even send out a luxuriant 

 growth of spray and foliage, but the natural characteris- 

 tics of the tree are'lost and can never be fully recovered, 

 and the chances are that it will exhibit from the outset 

 only a meagre and sickly appearance. His next neighbor, 

 perhaps, goes to a nursery and gets half a dozen maples, 

 horse chestnuts or ash trees, and plants them all on a 

 space no larger than would be covered by a single one of 

 either variety when fully grown. The next plants no trees 

 outside his front area, but crowds that enclosure with 

 evergreens, which, if they ever attain "half their natural 

 size, will be pressing into his windows on one side and 

 interfering with the sidewalk on the other, while long 

 spaces are left vacant on which no planting whatever is 

 done. The value and importance of trees as a means of 

 increasing the beauty and attractive character of a fine 

 street, requires no stronger argument than the fact that 

 even such a helter-skelter, unmeaning and slovenly style 

 of planting as the above, if continued for sufficient dis- 

 tance to give an appearance of general verdure to the 

 view up or down the street, excites an involuntary emo- 

 tion of pleasure in the mind of the observer; but few 

 people who have not seen it can realize how much this is 

 increased if the work has been systematically done ac- 

 cording to design, the varieties of trees being selected 

 according to natural characteristics of form and foliage, 

 and the individual trees being of uniform size and sym- 



