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without compeer for utility and beauty, the grandest, most 

 beautiful, and most picturesque of all deciduous trees, shotild 

 not be planted in Utah. Let every lover of trees try them. It is 

 certain that among the many kinds offered by nurserymen, 

 natives of our land and foreign lands, some will be found 

 adapted to Utah's climate and soil. They should be transplanted 

 when very young or reared from seed sown where they are to 

 stand. 



CONIFEROUS TREES. 



I doubt whether any of the conifers can be grown in Utah 

 for other purposes than for that of an ornament unless it be for 

 windbreaks, and even here the quick growing poplars and the 

 Box Elder are preferable. But no one having an assemblage of 

 trees for ornamental purposes can afford not to have some con- 

 ifers. The shade and shelter they afford, the sentiment which 

 their various forms of beauty inspire, the healthful and pleas- 

 ant aroma which they diffuse in the atmosphere about them, 

 and their uniqueness in contrast with the commoner deciduous 

 tree, especially in that they are evergreen, make it almost 

 indispensible that there be some evergreens about ou.r homes. 

 That they are not more commonly planted is accounted for by 

 the reputation they have in the severely dry region of the 

 West, of being hard to transplant and slow in growth. The first 

 need not be true, and the following paragraph, we hope, will 

 suggest how some of the difficulties may be avoided: 



TRANSPLANTING CONIFERS. 



First of all, to be rightly transplanted, a conifer must be 

 taken out of the ground, with its system of roots entire. Thus 

 removed, with proper after-treatment, and carefully replanted, 

 the tree need not suffer the loss of the smallest twig, and need 

 scarcely feel its removal. But a great deal depends on the 

 after-treatment. Nurserymen generally understand the dig- 

 ging, packing and shipping of their trees very well, and send 

 them out, as a rule, in good condition; it is safe to say that 

 the majority of trees are lost through neglect and bad treat- 

 ment after having been received by the planter. When trees 

 reach their destination from the nursery they should be at once 

 unpacked and "heeled in" tightly, so that moist, mellow earth 



