GETTING JC^UJINTED WITH THE TREES 



must confess, accumulates some ragged dead 

 branches in its interior. 



This raggedness is easily cared for, for the 

 tree requires — and few trees do — no "trim- 

 ming" of its outer branches. The interior 

 twigs that the rapid growth of the tree has 

 deprived of air and light can be quickly and 

 easily removed. In Washington, where street- 

 tree planting has been and is intelligently 

 managed under central authority, the avenues 

 of pin-oaks are a splendid feature of the great 

 boulevards which are serving already as a model 

 to the whole country. Let us plant oaks, and 

 relieve the monotony of too many maples, pop- 

 lars and horse-chestnuts along our city and 

 village highways. 



I like, too, to see the smooth little acorns 

 of the pin-oak before the leaves drop ; they 

 seem so finished and altogether pleasing, and 

 vv^ith the leaves make a classical decorative 

 motive worth more attention from designers. 



While I am innocent of either ability or 

 intent to write botanically of the great oak 

 family, I ought perhaps to transcribe the 

 information that the flowers we see — if we 



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