Planting Trees on a Lawn 



record, has been moved twice and so set 

 back. But this growth on a gravel-bank, 

 where no one thought that trees could be 

 made to live at all, is not to be despised. 

 Some of the other trees have grown almost 

 equally well, but were not so large to begin 

 with, so they seem less important. 



In that same April the generous friend A generous 

 who furnished us with the large Willow 

 and the Silver Maple, kindly sent us, in ad- 

 dition, a dozen moderate-sized trees which 

 he was disposed to think would grow faster 

 than the larger ones ; and these were placed 

 somewhat at random on the lawn, for they 

 came unexpectedly, and had to be set 

 without much reflection, so that some of 

 them have had to be moved again. 



And here we will honestly admit that the 

 landscape-gardener would have been of 

 great use to us, for the lack of experience 

 gives one a feeling of uncertainty about 

 the result of even his best - considered 

 arrangement, which is often disquieting. 



We know for one thing that we have 



too many trees too near together, because 



we never dreamed they would all make 



up their minds to live, and we discover 



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