WAY-SIDE HINTS 



they will have no room for full and rounded 

 development, or crowding his spruces, and his 

 Deodars, and Scotch pines, so that in a few 

 years there is but a thicket of close-growing 

 boles— offering no shelter from the wind, and 

 graded by no forecast of the relative measure 

 of growth. Or if, by accident, the planting be 

 judicious, there follows none of that resolute 

 trimming and bold use of the axe, under which 

 only a protective group of trees can be made 

 to maintain its rounded symmetry and its artis- 

 tic agreement with the landscape. 



Indeed, we are as yet only beginning to 

 learn what the real worth of screening banks 

 of foliage are to fruit, to gardens, and even to 

 grain-fields. It is doubtful if it be not the 

 last lesson — but certainly not the least im- 

 portant — which is learned in ornamental or 

 economic arboriculture. 



VILLAGE GREENS 



If I enter a little quiet plea for the old- 

 fashioned Village Greens, I hope I shall not 

 be decried by the reformers. Village Greens 

 are not quotable at the "Board." Our friend 



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