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charming is the Kentucky coffee tree. The male 

 combines a drooping form with fine spread of 

 limbs and elegant foliage. I know of no insects 

 that ever assail it» Elms must be planted only 

 where you have abundant room for their full ex- 

 pansion — not less than a diameter of a hundred 

 feet. A white elm is intensely individualized. It 

 is itself, to the finger-tips of every limb. It has no 

 desire for cooperation, and it does not like close 

 neighborhood. The red elm is unfit for lawns, 

 because it is in a stage of indecision in its evolu- 

 tion — not quite willing or ready to spread out its 

 limbs low down, and not quite ready to lift them 

 aloft like a white elm. The cork barked elm 

 can be found very generally in the New England 

 States and New York, and is fine for a small lawn. 

 This tree also does not like to be crowded. The 

 cork barked maple is peculiarly suited to small 

 lawns, having a very round head, not exceeding 

 twenty feet in diameter — rarely that. 



Among our native trees, I know of few that for 

 general planting are preferable to the magnolia 

 acuminata — a thoroughly hardy tree, growing as 

 erect as an arrow could be shot. This tree holds 

 its arm in a fine curve, without the least drooping. 



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