2O THE HOME ACRE. 



walks and drives ; for if we do, we can scarcely fail 

 to fall in love with types and varieties growing 

 wild. They will thrive just as well on the acre if 

 properly removed. In a sense they bring the 

 forest with them, and open vistas at our door deep 

 into the heart of Nature. The tree is not only a 

 thing of beauty in itself, but it represents to the 

 fancy all its wild haunts the world over. 



In gratifying our taste for native trees we need 

 not confine ourselves to those indigenous to our 

 own locality. From the nurseries we can obtain 

 specimens that beautify other regions of our 

 broad land ; as, for instance, the Kentucky yellow- 

 wood, the papaw, the Judas-tree, and, in the lati- 

 ttide of New Jersey and southward, the holly. 



In many instances the purchaser of the acre 

 may find a lasting pleasure in developing a spe- 

 cialty. He may desire to gather about him all the 

 drooping or weeping trees that will grow in his 

 latitude, or he may choose to turn his acre largely 

 into a nut-orchard, and delight his children with 

 a harvest which they will gather with all the zest 

 of the frisky red squirrel. If one could succeed 

 in obtaining a bearing tree of Hale's paper-shell 

 hickory-nut, he would have a prize indeed. In- 

 creasing attention is given to the growing of nut- 

 trees in our large nurseries, and there would be no 

 difficulty in obtaining a supply. 



