PREFACE. 



The preparation of the following pages has not 

 been with intention to exhibit or inculcate anything 

 specially new, but rather to put in plain, every-day 

 accessible form some features connected with trees 

 and shrubs for planting in streets, parks, private 

 grounds, cemeteries, etc., and their value for such 

 purposes, that would readily enable the improver of 

 a new place to answer for himself a question often 

 asked, viz., "What shall I plant?" 



I have endeavored, in plain language, to depict 

 the leading prominent habits of trees, to give some- 

 what of the heights, etc., to which they attain, and 

 the soils in which they best succeed. I have also 

 ventured to suggest some of the places and positions 

 in which their use will be most satisfactory. 



I have made no attempt to give a list of all known 

 trees and shrubs, nor to classify them scientifically ; 

 nor yet have I designed to forestall the needs of a 



