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this craying for shade trees ; and there are many houses 

 badly shadowed and shut in, and many yards cramped 

 and crowded by twice or thrice the number of large 

 trees which the place ought to support. The ax is the 

 remedy for such cases. The remedy is, indeed, very 

 hard to apply to trees which have become old friends, 

 but the improvement will be worth all the sorrow which 

 comes with it. The best way of all is to make such 

 thinnings very much earlier in the development of the 



FIG. 27. SUGOESTIOX FOR A FAR^MYARD. 



a%a, Siigrar maples ; h b, slirubbery ; c, climbers on i>oieli ; d, hawthorn ; 

 e e, elms ; /, basswood or horse-chestnut; g (j, sycamores. 



grounds, and then there is likely to be much less grief 

 in the family. 



To produce the rural, naturalistic -effect here recom- 

 mended, there should be a liberal use of shrubs. And 

 for the most part, the common native shrubs of the 

 woods and fields are much superior to tlie finest exotics. 

 Those things which are so common as to be slightingly 

 passed by are often the very best. Buck-berries, snow- 

 berries, alders, elders, dogwoods, wild roses, the flower- 



