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prevent injury liable to occur from drouth. Many of the 

 failures in planting trees of this class are due to lack 

 of care in this particular. Large trees are procured, with 

 long, naked stems and but little foliage ; these are planted 

 in hard, dry soil, and but little earth is stirred ; when they 

 are set the ground is not mulched. Now how can any one 

 expect success from such planting, especially in an adverse 

 season ? A few necessary points in planting street trees 

 are : Dig your holes large enough so as not to cramp 

 the roots of the trees ; loosen and mellow the ground for 

 several feet around the holes ; mulch heavily and widely ; 

 protect the bare body from the sun by wrapping; fre- 

 quently a board placed on the south side of a tree is 

 sufficient. A little attention to these matters will often 

 make the difference between success and failure. 



ASKED TO SELECT TREES. The families of Lincoln, 

 Logan, Grant, Douglas, and Cullom have eac.h been asked 

 to select a tree to be planted in the state house grounds at* 

 Springfield, Illinois, on the coming Arbor Day. 



ARBOR DAY HINTS FOR CENTRAL ILLINOIS. 



BY C. A. HAMMOND, SECEETABY ILLINOIS STATE HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY, WARSAW, ILL. 



Less than a score of years ago, one of the enterprising 

 spirits of the " Great American Desert " conceived the 



