48 ARBOR DAY. 



rank manure should never be put in the holes or around 

 a newly planted tree. As a matter of course, extreme 

 care should be taken not to expose the roots of trees 

 unnecessarily to sun and wind. 



SMALL YARDS AND CEMETERIES. A mistake often 

 made in small yards is too close planting. How often we 

 see a city lot with a row of elms or silver maples outside 

 the sidewalk, another row just inside the fence, and be- 

 tween this and the house several Norway spruce, pines, or 

 other rank-growing evergreens, and no room for the proper 

 development of any of them. It all looks well when the 

 trees are small, and if thinning out at the proper time is 

 unsparingly done it may not be objectionable, but few have 

 the heart to do this when it should be done. A single row 

 of street trees, with a few small shrubs, evergreens, or de- 

 ciduous trees, are all that are permissible. In cemeteries 

 it is common to see lots surrounded by an evergreen hedge, 

 rusty and dying at the base, and the interior filled up with 

 coarse-growing evergreens. This is all right enough in the 

 proper place; tne only trouble is that the owners have 

 tried to do on a spot of ground only a few feet square 

 what was only appropriate on an acre. Large trees are, 

 as a rule, allowable only in the general planting of ceme- 

 teries, or if set out in private lots, should be deciduous 

 trees, and of such varieties as will bear trimming up 

 high. 



