HANDBOOK 



OF 



ORNAMENTAL TREES. 



I. OF PROPER SOIL. 



1. EACH kind of tree lias a soil peculiarly 

 its own. In that soil it will do better than 

 any other tree. The subject, then, is one of 

 some moment. 



2. Science may some day explain this with 

 exactness; practice and experiment have 

 taught us chiefly what we know so far. 

 They have taught us that an oak, beautiful 

 on our neighbor's clayey soil, would lan- 

 guish in our light sandy loam ; and a pine 

 on ours "the envied of all beholders" 

 would be as equally uneasy on his stiff 

 ground. We have been enabled to learn 

 what trees are well adapted to certain soils 

 in what soil any given tree will do well. 



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