FOR THE HOME BEAUTIFUL 91 



SHADE AND ORNAMENTAL TREES 



"A pumpkin matures in a single season; but God 

 took a hundred years to make an oak." 



ONE of the saddest mistakes of tree planting is 

 to use unsuitable specimens or varieties for quick 

 effect, and without serious thought to the future. 

 When we plant a tree, it is not only for our own 

 comfort, convenience and enjoyment, but we should 

 give thought to posterity as well, in so doing. 



For street shade how much better it is to select 

 the Norway or the Sugar Maple, rather than to 

 plant the brash and rapid growing Water Maple. 

 There are probably no more popular trees today 

 for street planting than the Maples, and either of 

 the two first mentioned are excellent either for 

 street or lawn, forming dense, compact, symmet- 

 rical head's that are a delight indeed. On the other 

 hand the Water Maple "grows to the sky," be- 

 comes dangerous in time of high winds and storms, 

 and is very subject to concealed decay, and trunk 

 or main limbs may be but shells without its being 

 noticed until the damage is beyond repair or an 

 accident has happened. 



For city streets, where there is a great deal of 

 soot and smoke, as well as for seashore planting, 



