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PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 



ceives. Yet with better treatment it shows its gratitude in the brighter color 

 and greater beauty of its foliage. It does not sprout from the roots, and is 

 unobjectionable to the lawn. It requires little or no pruning, forming a round 

 head with spreading branches, if left to choose for itself. 



The tree shown has simply been left 

 alone, no knife having ever been ap- 

 plied in pruning. The spread of 

 branches is eighty feet, and is about 

 eighty feet high. 



In the days when hedge fences were 

 largely planted, before wire became so 

 cheap and effective for fences, there 

 were Northern localities where the 

 Osage orange could not be grown, and 

 honey locust was found to be perfectly 

 hardy and a good substitute for the 

 bois d'arc for hedge. 



Several railways have tested the 

 wood, and having proved its character 

 now accept it along with oak for cross- 

 ties, although but a comparative few 

 ties have been offered, farmers prefer- 

 ring to keep the honey locust for home 

 use, while selling the oak. A small vari- 

 ety G. aquatica grows in swamps. There 

 is not one street tree in Salt Lake City 

 which is so handsome or so grand for 

 shade as those honey locusts on Second 

 Street South. Second West. Here are 

 several very large and fine honey lo- 

 cust trees which ought to be patterns 

 for Utah tree planters. 



In Washington City few avenues sur- 

 pass those planted with honey locust 

 by William Saunders forty odd years 

 ago, although they show some neglect. 



Where in all the wide world can be 

 found a handsomer tree than the one 

 which we illustrate? Xo tree in exist- 

 ence possesses a more beautiful or 

 more graceful foliage. The trees are 

 perfectly hardy in all portions of the 

 United States, it being one of half a 

 dozen species of American trees which 

 have survived through thirty years of 



THE- LARGEST REMAINING HONEY neglect, among the hundreds planted 



LOCrsT. by the Santa Fe Railway in Kansas. 



