POPULAR 



DECIDUOUS AND EVERGREEN 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



" A taste for rural improvements of every description," says 

 Downing, " is advancing silently, but with great rapidity in 

 this country." This is evident from the immense number of 

 trees and shrubs that are planted from year to year in all private 

 and public grounds, upon the borders of our country roads, the 

 streets of our small towns and villages, and the suburbs of large 

 cities. 



As a nation we progress rapidly in the accumulation of 

 wealth, and perhaps we may with safety be called a " money- 

 getting people ;" but with all our love of money it has thus far 

 in the course been gained more for the enjoyments it would 

 purchase, or the good the owner was enabled to do therewith, 

 than for the simple, yet base, purpose of hoarding. While we 

 have no law to compel a man to plant a tree upon the roadside 

 on reaching manhood's age, or irpon the birth of each child, we 

 have as a people so much of enterprise and taste, so much 

 ambition and love of home adornment, that we are unwilling to 

 rest quiet without the association, comfort, and enjoyment in all 

 ways derived from cooling shades and fragrant flowers. 



