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moderate number they should usually stand in rows; 

 and if they approach closely to some extended geomet- 

 rical line they should always be placed jmrallel to it. 

 This applies to those infrequent instances in which a 

 row of trees will api)ear next the long face of a building, 

 and to the more common cases in which they "will follow 

 a drive or walk. It is quite the delight of the landscape 

 architect to form long avenues of stately trees ; and how 

 successful such leafy avenues luiA'e been in satisf}ing the 

 longings of men's hearts one need only consult the his- 

 torian, the story writer and the poet to learn. 



Street planting should be referred, for discussion, to 

 this place in our outlme ; and it is a matter of such gen- 

 eral importance, and yet one in which such a surprising 

 amount of bad taste is displayed, that we may give it a 

 proportionally large amount of our attention. The 

 street, then, is to be regarded as a geometrical figure, 

 and is to be consistently treated as such. This requires- 

 three things. First, the rows should be parallel with 

 the street. Second, the trees should be set at uniform 

 distances. Tliird, the individual trees should be just as 

 nearly uniform in all respects as it is possible to make 

 them. The first two considerations are sufficiently obyi- 

 ous. The third rule is constantly violated. It is not at 

 all uncommon to find two or more distinct species mixed 

 together in the same row. The writer remembers to 

 have seen nine different species in a single row running 

 only half the length of a city block. This row was i)ur- 

 posely set in such an order by the enthusiastic owner of 

 the jiroperty. The man might consistently have sewed 

 nine monstrously different buttons in a row down the 

 front of his Prince Albert coat. Great effort should 

 further be made to have all the trees in any given row 

 of the same size and form. If in the first planting of a 

 street only a part of the trees grow, no time or pains 

 can be spared quickly to fill the vacancies. And during 



