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Landscape Gardening 



roadside, especially where they have grown closely together, 

 is generally such that severe trimming and some training 

 may be necessary to bring them up to the most beautiful 

 and perfect condition; but trees with sound trunks and 

 good roots in good soil even though large and ill-shaped 

 may be made ornamental. Figs. 19, 22, and 23 illustrate 

 trees as they are often found, growing by the road- 



FIG. 21. FIG. 22. FIG. 23. 



FIGS. 21-23. Trees as Often Found on Building-lots. 



side or pastures, and the dotted lines a show where they 

 should be cut or headed back to give them the proper start 

 to renew their growth. Fig. 21 shows a very tall tree with 

 branches and leaves so far from the ground that when the 

 foliage is covered with moisture or the shoots with ice or 

 snow it may be injured by bending to the ground; when if 

 cut as shown at a to the height desired and a leader encour- 

 aged to form the centre of the growth, with laterals at 



