SELECTING TREES FOR SHELTER, SHADE AND SHOW 



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trees. These 

 w i n db r e a k 

 plantings are 

 at least 

 hundred 

 in width 

 composed 

 several 

 ties of 



one 

 feet 

 and 

 o f 

 varie- 

 trees 



such as Scotch 

 Pine, Black 

 Hills Spruce, 

 Carolina Pop- 

 lar, Green Ash 

 and Laurel 

 Leaf Willow. 

 In other places 

 where the ef- 

 fect of wind is 

 not so severe 

 as on the prai- 

 ries, but never- 



ROADSIDE PLANTING WITH TREES AND SHRUBS 



Masses of shrubs and groups of trees afford protection to the road and enhance the beauty of surrounding 

 scenery to such extent as to make them indispensable. 



break. In se- 

 lecting the 

 trees for this 

 type of plant- 

 ing it is com- 

 paratively easy 

 to produce 

 pleas i n g re- 

 sults by the 

 use of a few 

 varieties o f 

 trees. Borders 

 that have re- 

 sulted from 

 natural condi- 

 tions contain 

 from three to 

 eight varieties 

 of trees with 

 one or two va- 

 rieties p r e- 

 dominating. 



theless where 



it is worth reckoning with, sheltering 



protection may be secured by the use 



THE PIN OAK USED AS A LAWN SPECIMEN 



If it may be said of any tree that it has a stiff as 

 well as a graceful character, surely this can be 

 said of the Pin Oak. When young the Pin Oak is 

 quite formal in its appearance, but as it grows 

 older the terminal branches become willowy, 

 which give this tree a graceful air. 



of White Pine, White Cedars, Norway 

 Pine, Hardy Catalpa, Osage Orange, 

 Honey Locust and Red Oak, in addi- 

 tion to those varieties of trees which 

 are used for the same purpose in the 

 prairie regions. Where the wind is not 

 particularly intense it may be suffi- 

 cient to plant a single row of trees in 

 hedge fashion, and this will give all 



the protection needed from a wind- 

 break. 



Where the ground is not so lim- 

 ited as to demand the use of the 

 smallest possible space for the de- 

 velopment of a shelter planting, 

 something more than the planting 

 of a single row of trees may be at- 

 tempted. This is highly desirable 

 if the shelter or screen planting is 

 the background for the lawn or of 

 a fine meadow view, or is the frame 

 for a delightful vista. In these 

 cases the shelter belt of trees may 

 be fashioned after the border of 

 some nearby woodland where the 

 soil conditions and the exposure 

 are somewhat similar to the plant- 

 ing problem in hand. In copying 

 nature's methods in tret arrange- 

 ment and composition, it is wise 

 procedure to select examples of 

 borders that have developed along 

 uneven and naturalistic lines. In 

 most cases the borders of wood- 

 lands commonly found are those 

 that follow straight property lines. 

 These are "man trimmed" borders 

 which have been robbed of the un- 

 even and graceful outlines usually 

 found where growths of the trees 

 have developed along natural and 

 unhampered lines. In these undu- 

 lating borders we obtain a play of 

 light and shadow which is charm- 

 ing and which is wholly absent in 

 the common hedge-shaped wind- 



In consider- 

 ing the planting of trees for shelter, 

 wind is not the only factor to be taken 

 into account. Often it is desirable to 

 screen an unsightly object or group 

 of objects, the presence of which may 

 be a blemish in an otherwise beauti- 

 ful landscape. We can rarely remove 

 these objectionable features from the 

 line of our outlook, but we may screen 

 them by planting a mass of trees and 

 shrubs. Great variety is possible in 



THE RED OAK GROWS MOST RAPIDLY OF 



ALL OAKS 

 In similar soil conditions the Red Oak will sur- 

 pass the sugar maple in rapidity of growth and 

 while the Sugar Maple is not considered a slow 

 growing tree nearly everyone thinks of the oaks 

 as being so slow in growth as not to warrant ex- 

 tensive planting. 



