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Take this iu the matter of all coniferous trees. Couiferous trees are 

 somewiiat difficult to haudle, but wheu these trees have beeu grown 

 ill the nursery under j-our own care you have this advantage; you can 

 lift and plant at the proper time at a very considerable saving of money. 

 There is a great demand for our native trees and shrubs. These native 

 trees and shrubs are practically unobtainable in the nurseries, thej- are 

 not grown to any appreciable extent and almost the only way to get 

 the^e plants is to go in the woods and dig them up. If you go to the 

 woods and dig them up and plant them j'ou are ver}' likely to suffer severe 

 loss. You must select those plants which are most suitable ; the smallest 

 plants are always the best. You are not looking for large plants; you 

 are not looking for plants that will make an immediate show ; j'ou are 

 looking for plants that will make the best growth and you take plants 

 that are six inches high instead of three feet. You put them in the 

 nursery and grow them from one to three years and you not only have 

 plants that are otherwise practically unobtainable, but you have them 

 better and cheaper. 



IN KEGARl) TO THE VARIETIES 



which arerecommendablefor planting, you must consider the beauty, the 

 symmetry, the natural good appearance of the tree. It may be beautiful 

 for its flowers, for its foliage, or for its fruit ; some ti'ees happily combine 

 two or three of these requisites, while others are grown for their foliage 

 or flowers alone. The plant must be hardy ; that is, it must be capable of 

 resisting the circumstances under which it is to be grown ; it may be 

 hardy iu one place and not in another. This is important particularly 

 when you are planting rather large trees, such trees as would be selected 

 for street planting. 



Horse chestnuts are good ; they are trees which especially recommend 

 themselves to be planted in the vicinity of houses ; their growth and 

 sjmmetry commend them for that purpose. 



The sugar maple is to be especially commended for any purpose where 

 a large, handsome, well-shaped, deciduous tree is desired. There is noth- 

 ing better than the sugar maple; it is almost impossible to find any fault 

 in it. Its chief rival is the elm ; the elm is somewhat more graceful than 

 the sugar maple ; it, however, has the bad habit of losing foliage early and 

 it is iu some ways perhaps not quite so easily established. Between the 

 sugar maple and the elm it is very difficult to choose ; it is almost a matter 

 of taste, about which we know there is no dispute. You will very often 

 wheu clearing land preserve a scarlet maple. ■ The scarlet maple has the 

 happy faculty of succeeding iu land which is wet. 



There is oue tree which is planted quite extensively, one of thj maples, 



commonly known as the soft maple, sometimes the silver-leaved maple, 



which I do not consider worthy of planting. If we had no sugai- ma;jles 



or scarlet maples we might plant the soft maples, but tlie oiilv reason 



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