CHAPTER IV 



Trees and Shrubs 



Trees for Shade and Shelter Upon the Lawn — Street Trees — 

 Evergreens — Planting Trees — Best Shrubs — Shrubs with Edible 

 Berries — Evergreen Shrubs — Ground Cover and Low Growing 

 Shrubs — Low Growing and Trailing Shrubs for Various Pur- 

 poses — Bushes for Wet Places — Flowering the Branches of 

 Shrubs Indoors — Blooming Dates of Trees, Shrubs and 

 Climbers — How to Treat Nursery Stock and Material Gathered 

 from the Wild 



TREES 



THERE is nothing more exalting than a great tree, and- as Prof. 

 Bristow Adams suggests : "The wonderful thing about the tree is 

 that it keeps growing year after year and thus takes its place 

 as the oldest living thing." As such we should revere it as a choice 

 heritage, or if we fmd no 

 trees growing on our land 

 we should plant them for 

 our posterity. 



Not only should we 

 plant trees, but we 

 should care for them 

 properly and prune and 

 spray them intelligently. 

 Because we are neglect- 

 ful one year, an Elm 

 which has grown for a 

 hundred years may be so 

 damaged by the Elm 

 beetle, that recovery will 

 be slow. We owe it to 

 the community to try 

 to save it. Do not allow 

 the removal of trees by 

 telephone companies. 

 When excavating for 

 building foundations or 

 grading give careful ^^^^ p.,^ ^^^ .^ ^„ .^^ ^^^^^^^ 



thought for their pro- As a street tree, even with the necessary trimming 



to^firkT* °^ ^*® lower branches, it is still imposing. Hard 



lecuon. and long lived 



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