36 THE GARDEN BEAUTIFUL 



The almost universal tendency in planting trees in 

 home grounds is to place them too closely about the 

 house and to plant too thickly, shutting out views 

 and light from the windows and cluttering up and 

 appropriating the whole yard, to the destruction of 

 landscape beauty. The better plan is to plant the 



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DETERMINING HEIGHT OP TREE 



The height of a tree, a stack, or other object may, when not easily 

 measured directly, be found as follows : Set up a pole, as tall a one 

 as procurable, truly vertical ; find by sighting the point on the ground 

 where the line through the top of the object and of the pole cuts it. 

 Then the height of the object is in the same proportion to the height of 

 the pole as the distance from the object to the cutting point is to that 

 from the pole. Using the letters on the diagram, the height AB is to 



CD, the height of the pole, as AE to CE. Thus AB = (CD X AE) ~- 



CE. The point A must be directly below B, and the line AE must be 

 uniformly sloping ; it need not be horizontal. 



larger trees and shrubs along the borders of the 

 place, low shrubs and herbaceous plants in the house 

 border, leaving spaces between house and boundary 

 border treeless. Plant in irregular masses rather 

 than in straight lines or as single specimens. 



Care and experience are required to so plant trees 

 that they will not only live but thrive. It will prove 

 more satisfactory, and cheaper, to hire such work 

 done by an experienced gardener. In planting or 

 transplanting trees choose small rather than large 

 specimens. Dig large holes a day or a few days in 



