MARCH 51 



aid of our closest neighbours. We are not of 

 the tropics, so why waste time and money in 

 efforts to give a tropical effect to our patently 

 northern-temperate pleasure grounds ? Thank- 

 fully, indeed, do we accept the treasures brought 

 to us from foreign lands, and adapted to our 

 needs by patient, generally unknown, growers, 

 but it ought to be our pride to think first of 

 those things which are a part of our goodly 

 heritage as Americans. Good sense, as well 

 as good patriotism and good taste, should lead 

 us to make the most of the plants which have 

 fitted themselves to our soil and our climate by 

 uncounted ages of careful adjustment. Think 

 of the trees which may be brought in from 

 any bit of woodland and planted without the 

 long exposure that must lie between a nursery 

 and the planting site. Pines, oaks, elms, 

 lindens, beeches, maples, sycamores, tulip- 

 poplars, birches, hemlocks, larches, firs, spruces, 

 wild cherries, catalpas, ash, mountain ash, 

 sassafras ! Look at the smaller trees and 

 lesser shrubs, almost all of which grow within 

 two hours' drive of our eastern or middle- 

 western towns and villages, the judas tree, 

 dogwoods, thorns, crab-apples, sumachs, 



