TREES IN TOWNS 



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smaller growing trees. There are many Crab Apples which are most 

 excellent; one of the prettiest, with double pink flowers, is Bechtel's 

 Grab. A very handsome variety of Japanese Crab, has deep red buds 

 which on opening become white or a blush pink. The beauty of 

 this tree in bloom is overpowering. Many of the Thorn Apples are 

 handsome. They require a great deal of water and should not be 

 planted where they can rob the perennials. 



A tree known but httle and valued because of its very superior 

 Autumn tints, is the Sorrel tree (Oxydendron) . For Autumn effect, 

 the Maples are excellent, as is also the Sweet Gum. 



One must avoid great spots of vivid color in trees, for too great 

 an abundance of purple Plums and Beeches, Japanese Maples and 

 variegated yellow forms are going to de- 

 stroy the dignified beauty of your garden. 



Evergreens 



We must now say a word about the 

 evergreens. They are ever beautiful and 

 ever graceful as well as evergreen. To no 

 other trees does the injunction to let the 

 lower limbs grow apply so much as to the 

 evergreens. How different are our tastes! 

 In the evergreens some of us enjoy the in- 

 formal, look-as-though-they-were-weather- 

 beaten sorts. We enjoy Pines which have 

 had some accident when young and have 

 four or five trunks instead of one. We 

 admire the Austrian Pine at any stage of 

 its growth ; the Pitch Pine when it becomes 

 old and picturesque, with its sturdy short 

 branches, and persistent globular cones, 

 and the long, heavy foliage of the Red 

 Pine. Others will much prefer the conical 

 Firs and Spruces. The greatest beauty is 

 seen in a perfect specimen of Norway or 

 Oriental Spruce, branching to the soil and 

 hung with huge cones; or perhaps the blue- 

 green or grayish-green foliage of the Silver 

 Fir (Abies concolor) is a great attraction, 

 for this is one of the most beautiful trees 

 of this type. The latter is prettier than 

 the Colorado Blue Spruce, which some 



American Arbor Vitae 



Thuya occidentalis fili- 



foiniis. Highly decorative, 



standing singly at any 



appropriate point 



