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selves if it must not stand for the sake of an old memory 

 or a dear association. 



Never try to think of reasons why a tree should be cut 

 down, always work in the reverse way, and try to amass 

 objections to removing it. 



A true tree-lover will part willingly with a tree on only 

 one ground that is, over-crowding and spoiling a better. 

 It is no sacrifice to remove a tree when it is robbing a 

 finer specimen of space, air, light and food. 



The garden-maker will rejoice if there are trees on the 

 ground which he has to deal with, and his first thought 

 will be, not to make a profit from their timber, but to 

 work them into his gardening schemes. There may be a 

 fine specimen, or a group, at some little distance from 

 the site that he has marked for his house, with a bare 

 and possibly ugly space between. He can link up house 

 and trees by planting a belt of shrubs and a border of 

 herbaceous plants in a flowing line from the edge of his 

 lawn to the trees. A tree can always be brought into a 

 garden cheaply and effectively. The simple plan of 

 naturalizing bulbs, such as Crocuses, under it will do 

 that. 



If trees stand thickly on a site, and must perforce be 

 thinned, not less for their own sakes than for the sake of 

 the plants around them, the garden-lover will always 

 try to thin them in such a way that they compose a 

 harmonious group in themselves, form a vista which 

 helps the owner with outside scenery, or constitute a 

 glade leading to more secluded places. Provided they 

 have plenty of room in which to spread, trees will always 

 group themselves effectively. They are not on the 

 planet as units, but as components of woods and 

 forests. 



The tree-planter has his problem as well as the tree- 

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