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loam. A dry soil will favor a different class 

 of trees from one that is moist or wet. Some 

 trees will bear exposure to winds better than 

 others. Some will bear a temperature that 

 others will not. A variation of a few degrees 

 of the thermometer is sufficient to decide the 

 question of success or failure in planting many 

 trees. Some, again, are of slow growth as com- 

 pared with others, in themselves of equal value. 

 Some have a symmetry of form that others 

 have not, and may be preferable on this ac- 

 count. Some, by their structure, are better 

 adapted to use in the arts than others. All 

 these considerations are taken into account in 

 deciding in any given case what to plant. Suc- 

 cess depends upon it. 



Native Trees. 



But while each one must answer for him- 

 self the question, What to plant ? it is safe ad- 

 vice to the inexperienced tree-planter, and may 

 be very serviceable to him, when we urge him 

 to plant native trees. By this we mean not 

 simply those that may be found growing freely 



