Photo 74. 



tile. None of the poplars are long-lived. 

 The "Lombards" are pretty, but soon get 

 ragged or dead tops, as shown in photo 84. Photo 75. 



You frequently run across one-sided trees, which, to the average person, would be a 

 puzzle as to how to prune them. Photo 85 shows you one of them, and 86 teaches how it 

 has been doctored. Notice all the lower branches are taken off and all but the small one 

 in the upper part. The head is now formed above the eaves of the house. This tree is 

 treated substantially like that in photo 87 should be. One grew out of shape by the force 

 of the wind; the other by having a larger tree close by. In photo 87 all comes off to the 

 left of the vertical line, and all under the cross line. This leads us to consider the matter 

 of too close planting. Photo 88 gives you an excellent example. This is a row of fine 

 rock maples. The heads were started at a fairly good height, but they were set less than 

 20 feet apart. Planted close, their branches interlocked, and if a hurricane comes that 

 way it is apt to ploiv its way clear through them, which is what happened with these. A 



mild cyclone came along and 

 tore the top of the seventh tree 

 clear off and threw it upon the 

 house, and took the greater part 

 of the one on both sides, as 

 shown in photo 89. In the path 

 of the same storm were single 

 trees that bent, and twisted, and 

 swayed every way and were not 

 hurt in the least. How grand is 

 a tree that stands out bold and 

 symmetrical and clear from all 

 others ! Why do people persist 

 in planting so many trees.' Why 

 not have less of them and per- 

 fect ones ? 



TO SUM UP ALL, 

 you have this, namely: First, 

 plant small trees; and second, 

 plant far enough apart; third, 

 form the tops high. 



There is a pruning imple- 

 ment that is not generally 

 known, or its value is not appre- 

 ciated. It is shown in photo 

 93. It is U'a/er's Improved 

 Primer. Of all the implements 

 Photo 76. used in preserving the form of 



