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public spirit and taste, it is hoped and expected that they 

 will greatly improve and beautify them, and that those 

 who have not done so will embrace this occasion to 

 inaugurate the enterprise. 



LAWN planting may properly be considered of the first 

 importance, and the first question to decide is, what to 

 plant. The State Horticultural Society has recommended 

 an excellent list of trees for various purposes [given else- 

 where], but I will name a small select list which many 

 years of experience and observation have convinced me 

 are the most valuable. For beauty there is nothing equal 

 to the magnolia aeuminata or cucumber tree. It is per- 

 fectly hardy, a good grower, always clean and handsome, 

 and attracts much attention. The only objection is that it 

 is somewhat difficult to transplant. A rival to this is the 

 tulip tree, just as hardy, a more vigorous grower, and 

 nearly as handsome, with the advantage of being more 

 easily transplanted. Catcdpa speciosa is an indispensable 

 lawn tree ; is hardy, a rapid grower, with large fan-like 

 leaves and abundant flowers, which makes it admired by 

 all. The cut-leaved weeping-birch is a charming tree, 

 and should be better known and more generally planted. 

 The sugar maple is too familiar to need any recommenda- 

 tion. Norway spruce, white and Scotch pine are the 

 most desirable evergreens. 



FOR STREET AND ROADSIDE planting, nothing is equal 

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