ARBOR DAY ITS HISTORY AND OBSERVANCE. 



PLANTING ON LAWNS AND IN PARKS. 



After what has been said of planting on streets and school grounds 

 little needs to be added in regard to tree planting on larger spaces, 

 such as lawns, parks, and other open places. The same trees may be 

 used in general, but no such restrictions being necessitated as in the 

 case of street planting, the selection may be made from a greater num- 

 ber of trees. For example, trees whose beauty depends upon their 

 branches starting near the ground, so that the tree will be a solid mass 

 of verdure resting upon the earth's surface, are not appropriate for 

 street planting, where the branches must all be so high from the ground 



An old Maine homestead. 



as to admit of unimpeded passage under them. Many other trees also 

 would be misplaced upon a street border which are well adapted for 

 use on a lawn or other open space. 



No such uniformity in size or habit of growth is necessary in the case 

 of lawn or park plantations, as in roadside planting. Landscape effects 

 are here to be sought, and in securing them there is no limit hardly in the 

 choice of trees, except in their adaptation to the soil and climate of the 

 place to be planted. Here, as in all cases of planting, the first choice 

 of trees should be made from those which are indigenous to the locality. 

 This being done, others may be brought from a distance for the sake 

 of increasing variety, or on account of their special merits ? care being 



