78 THE SMALL COUNTRY PLACE 



Some of the Best Street or Avenue Trees. 



Among the most largely and easily grown street or 

 avenue trees the elm may be ranked as the best. Its 

 high arching branches afford an abundant shade and yet 

 allow a free circulation of air under them. The sugar 

 maple, red and white or silver maple, tulip tree, red and 

 pin oak, cucumber magnolia, all make good street or 

 avenue trees but the branches should be started high 

 that they may not interfere with travel as they increase 

 in size. 



In many states the street planting is in the hands of 

 one individual, known as the Tree Warden, and that 

 functionary assumes all the work of planting and caring 

 for street trees. While this may give more uniform 

 results, it will generally be after one idea, one plan, with 

 little or no variety, and it takes away all interest in such 

 work by the abutter, therefore little street decorating 

 will be done under such conditions except at the public 

 expense. But the spirit of commercialism and public 

 ownership should not suppress all sense of individual 

 responsibility for the public good. A large majority of 

 the beautiful avenues and attractive roadsides which 

 make certain cities, towns and villages noted for their 

 beauty, was largely the work of public-spirited indi- 

 viduals who planted for the love of the work and for 

 posterity. 



Home Decorations. 



The subject of decorating home grounds except in a 

 moderate way is one too large for the limits of this vol- 

 ume, and for more extended information the reader is 

 referred to the author's work on "Landscape Gardening 

 as Applied to Home Decoration," and other popular 

 works upon this subject. 



