ON TREES AND BIRDS. 



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procure no good sod on the lawns. They then went to 

 work and cut off all the lower branches, so that as one 

 looks among the trees they appear like a lot of 

 telephone poles with a little foliage at the tops. 

 This is a grave error. You are looking at a tree 

 here nearly one hundred feet through its branches. 

 From a landscape point of view this tree is worth 

 a hundred crowded together with all the lower 

 branches destroyed. 



