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for plauting soft maple is that it will grow quicklj- aud j-ou can get a 

 specimen in a few years. If you will plant it with the distinct under- 

 standing that it will he cut down when it is thirty or forty feet high 

 to give way to the more desirable maples, well aud good; otherwise 

 discard it. 



The next is the Xorway maple. It is not as good as our sugar maple, 

 but it presents a pleasing contrast. It does not bloom so freely as the 

 scailet maple, but it blooms before the leaves are well developed and the 

 flowers are a pretty shade of yellow. The Norway maple has been used 

 for street planting, but I think those who have planted it wish they had 

 chosen the sugar maple. It is a very fair tree and it has this pleasant 

 peculiarity, the yellow flowers, which cover the tree eai-ly in the season. 

 If the sugar maple was not such a magnificent tree the Norway maple 

 would be a very good tree; but the sugar maple overshadows it entirely. 



The yellow locust is a fine tree but vei-y diflicult to grow where borers 

 abound. The honey locust, or three-thorned acacia, is very graceful, a 

 quick grower and deserves to be more lai-gely cultivated. 



There is here a little group of fiowering trees, the hawthornes, fiower- 

 ing apples, flowering cherries and flowering plums. The flowering plums 

 make beautiful specimens whea you desire a tree fifteen or twenty feet in 

 height, with a spreading, compact top, fairly good foliage most of the 

 season, fairly symmetrical, you can have nothing better than the flower- 

 ing plums aud apples. The variety which is known as Parkraan's is one 

 of the most ornamental of low-growing trees. We have the old English 

 hawthorn with their double pink and white aud single scarlet flowers. 

 The trees are very desirable aud quick to grow. 



The American mountain ash is a charming tree, giving you an abund- 

 ance of fruit during the autumn months. The Ameiican ash and 

 American sassafras are grand trees. 



Of elms we have the American elm and the English elm, which is 

 nearly as good. The English elm lacks, however, the graceful beauty of 

 the American elm. The English elm is a compact tree that grows 

 straight up, and has not that beautiful fall of branches that the Ameri- 

 can elm has. It has an advantage over the American elm in some parts 

 of the country; where the canker worm abounds the English elm does 

 not suffer. 



All the oaks are good ; the red oak, the black oak, the scarlet aud the 

 pin oak aie the best. The white oak is a beauty but of such slow growth 

 that it is hardly recommendable for planting. These oaks have a bad 

 reputation among tree men. They are supposed to be slow growers. 

 If you dig up an oak which is eight oi- ten feet high and plant it in 

 your garden you will find it is a slow grower; but if you begin with a 

 nursery grown tree a foot high and plant in a hole which is made two or 

 three feet across and about a foot deep filled in with good soil, aud if you 

 will give it a little care so that it will not be run over by grass or 

 eaten up by cattle, you will find that oak will make a beautiful tree in 

 eight or ten vears. 



