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family which are hardy, black walnut, butternut, and 

 hickory; and while waiting for these, plant willow and 

 other similar tree cuttings. 



When district boards are ordering from a distance, 1 

 advise them to buy six to eight feet young trees. They 

 will be more likely to live and be much less expensive. 

 For screens or front line or division fences get arbor vit 

 which have been well transplanted and are two feet high. 

 Whatever you plant, dig the soil from two to three feet 

 on each side of the tree, mulch thoroughly, protect the trees, 

 and let no sod form about them for three years. The 

 trunk of each tree should be bound up four feet at plant- 

 ing time with marsh hay for shade, and so the borer will 

 not deposit his eggs the first season. Street trees should 

 always be planted outside the sidewalk. 



INDIANA TREE LISTS. 



BY C. M. HOBBS, BEIDGKPOET, IND., SECRETARY OF THE STATB 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



FOR THE STATE. Would recommend the following list 

 of trees for planting on streets and in public grounds in 

 Indiana. They are all native to the state, and easily ob- 

 tained, generally hardy and easily transplanted. To this 

 list might be added other native and foreign trees, quite 

 as desirable, but it is not best to have the list too long, 



