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LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 



Among the millions in nurseries, all grown from seed, a largo 

 number have no characteristics to ever make them trees of 

 grandeur, while yet they may be trees of beauty. The planter 

 in selecting should look for plants with long, pendent shoot-;, 

 rather than stiff, erect, or horizontal ones, as it is only the former 



Fig. 38. The American Red SrnucE. 



that will make trees of the greatest beauty. For masses or 

 groups, this swaying, drooping, picturesquely-graceful habit is 

 of less consequence than when the tree is to stand by itself, and 

 for hedge or belt screen growing, to which the Norway is well 

 adapted, the close, stiff, erect-growing plants are probably the 



