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Our Trees 



HOW TO KNOW THEM 



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{Continued from page 1S2) 

 Correct design, of course, and strict at- 

 tention to historic examples, are the things 

 that make the new Colonial house a success 

 or a failure. And also, as has already been 

 said, the materials used in the building must 

 be selected with the greatest care. 



" In English Renaissance," says the archi- 

 tect, " local conditions commonly restricted 

 the use of wood to the interiors. In Amer- 

 ican Renaissance (that in our own Colonial 

 style) the plentitude of this material enabled 

 the Colonial builders to use it for the out- 

 side as well, and with great advantage, for 

 it permitted the Colonist to elaborate the 

 elevations of his dwelling, gaining thereby 

 warmth, cheerfulness and grace, and all 

 easily within his means. Without the 

 slightest danger of bankruptcy he could 

 proceed to embellish the curtilage with 

 arched gateways, ornamental fences, terrace 

 rails and summer-houses ad lib." 



No wonder then that in early American 

 villages are found so many splendid houses 

 (large or small) that have remained to this 

 day as a model after which the houses of 

 our own time may be patterned, with, how- 

 ever, it is sad to say, sometimes but indif- 

 ferent success. And no wonder, in view of 

 this realization of the faith that earlier 

 designers had in wood, that practically all 

 of Mr. Dow's most successful houses have 

 been built of that material. And quite 

 naturally of wood, too, for " there was no 

 bit of classic detail from either Athens or 

 Rome transmitted to London" (and from 

 there to America where the Georgian archi- 

 tecture of England became, in course of 

 translation or transplantation, the Colonial 

 architecture of New England) " through 

 what I may call the ' Florentine Clearing- 

 house ' presided over by Palladio, Sanso- 

 vino, Scammozzi and their contemporaries, 

 but what would be carved more readily in 

 wood ; and time and history have thrown a 

 glamour over all this wooden development 

 of ours and established its right of succes- 

 sion with a hall-mark." 



Blasting Tree Holes 

 "I recently visited Prof. C. B. Waller, 

 Instructor in Chemistry at Wofford College, 

 Spartanburg, South Carolina, writes J. C. 

 Ahl, " I found him to be an enthusiastic 

 advocate of dynamite for blasting tree holes. 

 It seems that recently he planted fifty pecan 

 trees in some hard clay soil. He had read 

 something about the advantages of using 

 dynamite in tree planting and decided to try 

 it. The orchard site was laid out in sections. 

 At each intersecting point, a bore hole was 

 put down to a depth of about thirty inches, 

 each hole being charged with a quarter of a 

 pound of 20 per cent dynamite. When 

 these holes were dug out just before plant- 

 ing the trees, it was found that the blasting 

 had shattered the hardpan very nicely. The 

 blasting also saved a good deal of time and 

 much hard work. The use of dynamite 

 for tree planting is becoming very general 

 all through this section of the state." 



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