The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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TREES AND SHRUBS BEST SUITED FOR SCREENS OR 

 WIND-BREAKS. 



For this purpose, evergreens are mostly employed. Mi.xed with evergreens 

 or planted by themselves in dense rows or gi-oups, many deciduous- 

 leaved trees and shrubs are useful. Young white oaks and beeches hold 

 many of their leaves during winter and make a very good screen, but they 

 are unsightly at such times. The following are the common names of our best 

 evergreens : 



Norway pine, where not too near the dwellings, though the tree is a little coarse. 

 Red cedar grows rather slowly, and becomes brown in winter. 



White cedar makes a dense though somewhat slow growth, and is a general favorite. 

 White pine, one of the very best. It may be cut back if desired, thus keeping the 

 trees denser and more stocky. 

 White spruce. Very good. 



We enumerate some of the best deciduous-leaved trees : 



American elm, Black maple, Pepperidge, Silver maple, 



Aspen, Black oak, Red maple, Sugar maple, 



Basswood, Box elder. Sassafras, Tulip tree. 



Beech, Mulberry, , Scarlet oak. White oak. 

 Black cherry. 



In selecting shrubs to mix with trees, there is no danger of going amiss. 

 Each possesses some peculiar merit. 



Alders, for moist land. Elders, 



Bladdernut, 

 Bittersweet, 

 Blue beech, 

 Choke cherries. 

 Dogwoods, 



Grape vines, 

 Hazels, 

 Hawthorns, 

 Honeysuckles, 

 Judas tree, 



Mountain ash, 

 Mountain maple. 

 Prickly ash, 

 Service berr}-, 

 Sumachs, 

 Viburnums. 



Virginia creeper, 

 Wild crabb. 

 Wild plum. 

 Willows, 

 Witch hazel, 



-Flora of Michigan. 



By overbearing many young trees are irrepairably injured. Many planters, 

 however, are so much afflicted with the muckle in their eye that they sacrifice the 

 prospective dollar. In other words, they are so eager for a crop that their trees 

 die of a broken back long before their days of usefulness should have been over. 

 Trees just coming into bearing should be carefully watched, and if the crop 

 promises too large for their strength, the evil should be averted by thinning. 



