Shade Tree Suggestions. 



INTRODUCTION. 



If the presentation of a short bulletin on this subject needs 

 justification, it may be found in the two following facts : 



1. In this State thousands of dollars are expended every 

 year for shade trees. A large part of this expenditure is either 

 a total loss, or it gives very unsatisfactory results. It is hoped 

 that this bulletin may contribute a little toward better results. 



2. In this State thousands of dollars more than is now 

 being spent could profitably be used, it is believed, in planting 

 shade trees. Home grounds are still too often devoid of even 

 the suggestion of verdure of any kind. Towns can be found 

 in which a shade tree would be a curiosity. Only one real park 

 exists in all the State. One or two others are being developed, 

 but many more are wholly possible, at moderate expense. Vil- 

 lages and towns might add much to their beauty (see plate II) ; 

 might materially enhance their property values by judicious 

 planting upon the school grounds and along their usually broad 

 streets and the highways leading to them. If this bulletin adds 

 even a slight impetus to the movement for the adornment of 

 home and municipal surrounding, its issuance will have been 

 justified. 



CONDITIONS IN WYOMING. 



This is a State characterized by its vast treeless plains, 

 through which tree-bordered streams meander; by long lines 

 of intersecting, undulating grassy hills, either naked or sparsely 

 wooded; and by titanic mountain ranges, whose sides are 



