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larches, so valuable both for lumber and for 

 their resinous products, as well as for screens, 

 and for their cheering beauty in the season when 

 the deciduous trees have dropped their foliage. 



We can not, within the compass of a volume 

 like this, speak in detail of the long catalogue of 

 trees which offer themselves to our hand for 

 planting, and which, for one purpose or another, 

 arc valuable, and commend themselves to the 

 attention of the planter. We leave that to the 

 special treatises on the subject, and confine our 

 remarks to a few trees which are worthy of al- 

 most universal consideration. 



One who is contemplating planting on a con- 

 siderable scale, can hardly go amiss in making 

 use of the oak, in one or more of its varieties, a 

 tree which, as far back as history goes, and 

 among so many nations, has been recognized 

 and cherished on account of its many valuable 

 qualities. For fuel and for timber, for building 

 and for many purposes in the constructive arts, 

 it easily ranks as one of our most valuable 

 woods, if it does not stand clearly at the head of 

 the list. And already the alarm is sounded that 

 this tree, so common, so well known, growing 



