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this sumach in the ground and cut it down every year to about 

 three or four buds, fertihze heavily with stable manure and you 

 will get a growth of from six to eight feet the following year of 

 a rich tropical plant that will attract general attention. In the 

 fall you have those beautiful crimson colors which make one of 

 the most attractive objects on your lawn. The mountain ash 

 has already been referred to. That is just beginning now to 

 show the color of its fruit. Down by the road you saw the 

 bushes of the high bush cranberry coming into fruit. From now 

 on that will be one glorious show of highly colored fruit and 

 it makes a very attractive plant. Our common birches, our 

 white spruce, our American holly or winter berry, sometimes 

 called black alder, our common wild sumach ; some will hold up 

 their hands in horror when I speak of our hardback for an orna- 

 mental plant, yet you will go to the nursery and pay for spiraea 

 fo'iiiciifosa, or spiraea salieifolia when you might as well go into 

 the field and get hardback or meadow sweet. All the difference 

 is that the nurserymen grew one and the Lord grew the other. 



Where can you find a more noble tree than the common hem- 

 lock, for certain places? Now some of you men that live on 

 sandy soil will condemn me for what I am going to say, but for 

 certain places, and on light soil, where can you get a better 

 thing for certain effects than the juniper? Those of you who 

 have seen it on the sandy plains around Brunswick will say "The 

 idea of using that thing for an ornamental plant !" But do you 

 know, it makes one of the best of ornamental plants where low 

 growing evergreens have lost their limbs and you have a lot of 

 bare trunks you want to screen. 



Then our common white cedar, which is regarded as a 

 weed, is nevertheless one of the best of things to make a clump 

 to screen ragged evergreens. 



In many shady places, especially on heavy clay land, where 

 you want ])lants to grow and don't know what to put in, there 

 are our common native dogwoods. Look on the north side of 

 Fernald Hall. The whole distance there used to be a rough, 

 cold, clay bank, where the grass would heave out, and it always 

 looked bare and barren. We went out into the woods back here 

 on the farm and got those wild dogwoods and set in there. The 

 effect you can see. Then our wild cherries make very orna- 

 mental trees. Our white ash, our queen of the American forest, 



