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always beautiful, has a clean stem, and bright, polished, glossy 

 leaves, glancing spiritedly in the sun. It comes out early and re- 

 tains its delicately colored leaves very late ; and has showy blossoms 

 and sweet nuts. It is said not to attract the electric fluid, and 

 therefore is not struck by lightning, and is not as liable as most 

 trees to be browsed upon by cattle. 



These two last qualities recommend it as particularly suitable 

 to be planted in a pasture. Humanity, not less than enlightened 

 economy, requires that shade be provided for the herds and flocks 

 in their pastures. A few beeches, beautiful to the eye, will shelter 

 them from the sun, and invite them to repose, instead of wandering 

 about. Other trees, adapted to this purpose, are lindens and maples. 

 Beautiful pasture trees are all the species and varieties of the 

 hickory. In deep soils they get much of their food from a point 

 below the roots of the grasses, and therefore interfere little with a 

 mowing field or pasture. They are also well suited for the sides 

 of roads, as their tendency is not to form large lower limbs. They 

 are thought to be peculiarly difficult to transplant ; and so they 

 are when taken from the forest or its neighborhood ; but when 

 properly managed in a nursery, their tendency to depend almost, 

 entirely upon the tap-root being corrected by judicious pruning of 

 the root, they may be removed as safely as any other tree. 



Would it not be worth while to take some pains to propagate 

 more extensively a tree which bears so valuable a fruit as the 

 shagbark ? 



Among middle-sized trees may be mentioned the sassafras, re- 

 commending itself by its curiously lobed, sweet leaves, its blossoms 

 and its striking fruits ; the hornbeam, for the fine color of its 

 fluted trunk and its handsome leaves ; the hop hornbeam 

 for the softness of its foliages ; the locust, not always a low tree, 

 for its soft, satiny leaves, and fragrant showy flowers, and the end- 

 less variety of its outline. 



As in proper keeping with the regularity of a street, we may 

 choose trees of regular and somevfhat formal and monotonous 

 beauty, such as the linden, and, when there is room enough, the 

 horse chestnut, or the red maple, or the river maple. 



Many people, with a sentiment for beauty, but with Httle culti- 

 vation of taste, are delighted with mere symmetry in a tree. To 

 such persons, a row of lindens will give great pleasure, on account 

 of their symmetrical regularity, while the depth of shade and of 

 color and the fragrance of the blossoms of the English tree recom- 

 mend it to all. 



The black walnut and the butternut are sometimes planted 

 for their fruit along enclosures, so as to serve, at the same time, 

 for shade to travellers. Both these and the European walnut 

 niiglit be planted for these purposes still more extensively. They 

 are all shade trees ; and, in comparison with other nations of 



