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cordwood will be secured in the cutting from year to 

 year of the weaker trees that are overtopped by their 

 neighbors, and from thinning that must be made 

 if the highest types of woodland beauty are to be 

 developed. Bear in mind that the wood-lot in good soil 

 may produce a cord of wood to the acre each year. 



as oak, maple, and magnolia. The last third would be of 

 such undergrowth, shrubs, and small trees as the flower- 

 ing dogwoods, red-bud, benzoin, viburnums, white 

 fringe, rhododendrons, azaleas, callicarpa, manzanita, 

 and madrona. Woodland ground-cover plants may be 

 established by bringing them in from the woods with 

 an abundance of the natural leaf-mold soil 

 retained about their roots. 



The location for the wood-lot is at the 

 point near the home buildings where it will 

 best serve such purposes as are referred to 

 early in this article, but as open land in 

 this position is very valuable for farm 

 uses the lot should not be large; elsewhere 

 on the farm the wood-lot should occupy 

 land least suited for annual crops, such as 

 the very steep slopes and the rocky or bar- 

 ren areas. 



Aside from woods themselves, tree forms 

 have their special values in providing 

 structural features in a landscape, combin- 

 ing well with architectural forms and afford- 

 ing good backgrounds and boundaries. 

 Strip the trees from such constructions as 

 shown in Figs. 3004 and 3005 and note the 

 effect. WARREX H. MAXXING. 



3003. A good open area, with attractive shrub forms and tree forms. 



Fortunate is the owner who has an established wood- 

 lot, and especially if he appreciates and takes wise 

 advantage of its utility and beauty. As woods would be 

 included the thicket of few trees in the little town lot as 

 well as the acres of trees on the large estates, because in 

 the cool shade and leaf-mold soil of each the same 

 plants and bird-shelters may be established. When 

 there is no wood-lot one must plant either evergreen or 

 deciduous trees to make one. If the home lot is a small 

 one and it is desired to have a little wood-lot high 

 enough to walk under at once, at reasonable cost, tall 

 slender collected or nursery-grown trees may be planted 

 close together and then thinned as they grow. 



If a shelter-belt for winter is the most important 

 consideration, use .such cone-bearing evergreens as the 

 pines, spruces, hemlocks, junipers, arbor-vitae, cypress, 

 the last three for a narrow belt, or in the South and on 

 the Pacific coast, such broad-leaved ever- 

 greens as the magnolia, eucalyptus, cam- 

 phor tree. 



It should be known that undergrowth 

 and ground-cover plants with attractive 

 flowers cannot be so easily established 

 under evergreens as under deciduous trees ; 

 also that among the deciduous trees are 

 more rapid-growing species with attractive 

 flowers and fruit. 



To grow a very interesting wood-lot in 

 a few years from the small seedling plants 

 that can be secured in large quantities at 

 low cost, such plants would be set from 3 

 to 5 feet apart. At this distance they soon 

 shade the ground so much with foliage as 

 to kill out ordinary weeds and give en- 

 couragement to the more attractive wood- 

 land plants. Furthermore, close planting 

 will force a rapid growth in height. In the 

 selection of plants, about a third would be 

 made up of the quick-growing low-cost 

 species such as poplar, soft maple, ne- 

 gundo, catalpa, locust, and in warm sec- 

 tions the eucalyptus, pepper tree, grevillea. 

 Another third would be made up of the 

 slower-growing more permanent trees, such 



Wild-gardening. 



Wild-gardening is the art of arranging 

 and growing colonies of hardy plants, 

 native or foreign, so that they will look 

 like wild flowers, multiplying with little or no care 

 after planting. A wild-garden is not a garden that 

 has run wild, reminding us of man's neglect; it is a 

 poetic suggestion of the beauty of nature untouched 

 by man. Beginners commonly suppose that wild- 

 gardening is merely the cultivation of native flowers, as 

 in a small border. Such an effort is worth while, but it 

 is rarely artistic and can hardly be called wild-garden- 

 ing. The main idea of the latter, originally, was to 

 naturalize foreign flowers in larger masses than those of 

 the garden. Wild-gardening is, therefore, a branch of 

 landscape gardening which aims to reproduce the largest 

 floral effects of nature with the least suggestion of man's 

 interference. 



The large facts in wild-gardening are: (1) the place 

 or location for it; (2) the composition, as part of the 

 landscape; (3) the kinds of plants; and (4) the small 



3004. Tree forms in relation to informal architecture. House in Japan. 



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