Trees for the Home Grounds 



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of its main, spreading branches, and care should be exercised that this 

 opening will look out upon a pleasing vista. 



The weeping ash, where it does well and is grafted high enough, forms 

 a splendid arbour much sooner than the Camperdown elm, but it seems 

 more adapted to its English home than to our climate. 



Tea's weeping mulberry, of comparatively recent introduction, is one 

 of the fastest growers of them all, and naturally forms a narrow arbour. 

 The new growth starts out from the upper part of the present branches, 

 arches slightly, 

 and then hangs 

 down straight. 

 These new 

 branches rob 

 the inner ones 

 o f light and 

 air, causing 

 their decay 

 and death, 

 but the new 

 branches are 

 annually in- 

 creasing the 

 spread of the 

 top, a n d in 

 time form an \ 



arbour. In The glittering raiment of soft snow 



order to hasten 



the formation of a fair-sized arbour, cut the head well back, in the spring 

 or at the time of planting, fasten an iron ring or wooden hoop under the 

 outer rim of the head, and train the branches out laterally for two 

 seasons. The hoop should be wTapped with burlaps to prevent chafing, 

 and the branches tied to it. 



Weeping mulberries are grafted on upright forms. An illustration is 

 given (page 93) of this tree, growing on its own roots, where the branches 

 droop from the trunk all the way up. It is not a thing of beauty, but of 

 curiosity. Had it not been supported from the time of planting it would 

 be sprawling upon the ground. In planting a weeping tree to form an 



