210 STUDIES OF TREES 



owners. Inquiries should be made to the State Forestry 

 Commission. 



Great care must be taken to select the species most 

 suitable for the particular soil, climatic and light conditions 

 of the woodlot. The trees which are native to the locality 

 and are found growing thriftily on the woodlot, are the 

 ones that have proven their adaptability to the local con- 

 ditions and should therefore be the principal species used 

 for underplanting. A list from which to select the main 

 stock would, therefore, vary with the locality. In the 

 Eastern States it would comprise the usual hardy trees 

 like the red, pin and scarlet oaks, the beech, the red and 

 sugar maples, the white ash, the tulip tree, sycamore, sweet 

 gum and locust among the deciduous trees; the white, 

 Austrian, red, pitch and Scotch pines, the hemlock and the 

 yew among the conifers. 



With the main stock w T ell selected, one may add a num- 

 ber of trees and shrubs that will give to the woodland scene 

 a pleasing appearance at all seasons. The brilliant autumnal 

 tints of the sassafras, pepperidge, blue beech, viburnum, 

 juneberry and sumach are strikingly attractive. The 

 flowering dogwood along the drives and paths will add a 

 charm in June as well as in autumn and an occasional group 

 of white birch will have the same effect if planted among 

 groups of evergreens. Additional undergrowth of native 

 woodland shrubs, such as New Jersey tea, red-berried elder 

 and blueberry for the Eastern States, will augment the 

 naturalness of the scene and help to conserve the moisture 

 in the soil. 



Two or three years' growth will raise these plants above 

 all grass and low vegetation, and a sprinkling of laurel, 

 rhododendron, hardy ferns and a few intermingling colonies 

 of native wild flowers such as bloodroot, false Solomon's seal 



