of sickly, bark-peeled, scrubby maples 

 planted down the street that you see. All 

 pains have been taken to make a success 

 with them. But, in the first place, the 

 trees were too large w T hen planted, pro- 

 ducing dead centers (see page 31), and 

 second, they never can amount to any- 

 thing there, because, in addition to hav- 

 ing nothing but pure sand to root in, the 

 street is paved and thereby shuts off all 

 rainwater from penetrating. Though they 

 have provisions for watering and have 

 iron tree guards, yet there they will stand 

 year after year, trying to thrive, but will 

 be nothing but scabby, diseased objects, 

 which finally will be torn off by the wind 

 or otherwise perish. 



The place for shade trees on such 

 pared streets is inside the fence, on the 

 lawn, as shown in photo 113. Trees 

 properly planted, say, 3 feet from the 

 walk, inside, would in a few years cover 

 the sidewalk and ultimately go to the 

 middle of the street. You frequently see this where the soil is good. Photo 114 shows 

 you a row of maples planted inside the fence, whose branches extend to the middle of a 

 6o-foot road. This is west of the beautiful little city of Ravenua, Ohio. To prove to you 



