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portions of many of our towns it may be 

 seen in a healthy and flourishing condition 

 despite occasional fogs and the usual heated 

 dusty air common to such situations. Being 

 an evergreen renders it all the more valuable 

 for town planting. It is somewhat difficult to 

 transplant, but previous well directed man- 

 agement whilst in the nursery grounds will 

 greatly obviate this drawback. 



CONIFEROUS TREES 



Generally speaking, coniferous trees are 

 ill-adapted for cultivation in our larger towns 

 and cities, and occasionally one sees the 

 Cedar, Cypress, and Austrian Pine; but their 

 rusty, semi-leafless, generally miserable ap- 

 pearance points only too clearly to the fact 

 that they are unsuited for planting where 

 smoke and other atmospheric impurities 

 abound. Where the position is open and airy 

 and the atmosphere not too contaminated 

 with impurities, a few kinds succeed in a 

 fairly satisfactory manner, but even these 

 require a good deal of coaxing in the matter 



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