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variety and wonderful beauty of their native trees and shrubs. 

 Their nurserymen and landscape gardeners are trying to grow trees 

 of foreign nativity just for the name of it, at a cost of many fail- 

 ures and disappointments when they have better kinds all about 

 them at home." So high a recommendation of our tree beauty, 

 from such a source is surely worth heeding. 



The scope of this paper forbids any reference to details of plant- 

 ing, so far as mere labor is concerned. I will only say that out of 

 the above list are tp be obtained trees that will grow almost any- 

 where, if taken up at the proper time in spring or fall and removed 

 from the forest to the home grounds with care, properly set, and 

 after being set not neglected, until they are able to take care of 

 themselves. So far as possible the same conditions should be ob- 

 tained upon the home grounds, for a tree removed from the forest, 

 as those to which it had been accustomed ; and while it is not neces- 

 sary to depend upon the foreign nursery for our ornamental any more 

 than for our fruit trees, it is true that trees from a nursery, having 

 been two or three times transplanted and having an abundance of 

 fibrous roots, bear removal better than trees from the natural forest. 

 But if selected from the forest care should be observed to take them 

 from the edge of the wood, rather than in its depths. They are 

 more symmetrical and bear transplanting better. Choose small trees 

 — they are usually of more perfect shape and in removing them one 

 is sure to take up a greater proportional share of roots than with 

 trees which are larger. 



Of its own species or variety a tree for ornament should be as 

 near perfect as it is possible to find one in half a day's hunt about 

 the woods and pastures, one embodying the decided characteristics 

 of the species to which it belongs, straight of trunk, symmetrical in 

 outline and beautiful from any point of view. A tree should never 

 be planted for shade or ornament whi«4i we will ever become tired of 

 looking at. It is true a crooked tree with dense foliage on one side, 

 and open branches on another will serve the purpose of shade, but 

 it will never serve that higher one of ornament. So long therefore 

 as the same tree may combine both elements, that of humble ser- 

 vice and of queenly beauty, be sure to select that which represents 

 the two qualities. 



In planting trees about home grounds of moderate extent it is 

 generally the better rule to have each tree depend for its beauty or 

 ornamental effect upon itself alone, rather than upon other trees. 



