Photo 121. 



Photo 122. 



Photo 123. 



In photo 1 20 you see the burial lot of the 

 Hon. Marvin Kent, in Standing Rock Ceme- 

 tery, Kent, Ohio. The city of Kent is named 

 in honor of this venerable gentleman. In 

 the rear of the lot you observe a tall ever- 

 green tree. This is a Norway spruce. On 

 either side of the entrance is a shorn tree ; 

 these, also, are Norway spruce and the same 

 age as the tall one. Shearing or pruning has 

 the tendency to dwarf a. tree or plant. (This 

 is why skilled gardeners prune fruit trees, 

 and train them to produce early bearing.) 

 These trees stood about 15 feet high in 1881. 

 They were cut back in August of that year. 

 The shorn arbor-vitae hedge that you see 

 stood 7 feet high and was cut back at the 

 same time the trees were. Both trees and 

 hedges are shorn in August of every year. 

 Photos 121, 122, 123 and 124 are all taken 

 from the beautiful Standing Rock Cemetery. 

 The arbor-vitse is capable 

 of being trained into almost 

 any form. In 121 you will 

 notice a specimen that resem- 

 bles a cross. That is what it 

 was started for, but the train- 

 ing has not been good. All 

 that was necessary to secure 

 this form was to drive a stake 

 having cross arms. To each 

 of these a good, strong 

 branch was fastened and the 

 top cut off. Another branch 

 was carried up and the top 

 clipped out. An annual trim- 

 ming has brought it into the 

 present form. It is well for 

 boys and girls to practice forming designs 

 with this variety of arbor-vitce. This is the 

 American arbor-vitse. The arch formed in 

 photo 122 is the same kind. So is the hedge 

 and the one seen in the distance, as is also 

 the hedge in photo 120. By setting four 

 plants, and about the third year bending 

 down the branches, you can form a dog or 

 other animals. A good-sized one in your front 

 yard might do quite a little "scaring" on 

 moonlight nights. The two pyramidal trees 

 in photo 123 are the Siberian arbor-vitas. The 

 plants of a globular form at the corners in 

 photo 124 are Hovey's golden arbor-vitas. 

 The tree in the midst of the lot with the two 

 rings formed is the American blue spruce. 

 The arbor-vita; must not be planted under 



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