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planting, the value of the land, and taxes were all counted in 

 and carried forward at six per cent compound interest. This 

 figure should be taken only as a general indication of the money 

 return to be expected, but it points to the conclusion that when 

 the local conditions are favorable, the growing of Christmas 

 trees can be made a profitable commercial venture. 



In growing Christmas trees, it should always be borne in 

 mind that the most important item is to be sure that there 

 exists a market, preferably not far distant, where it is reason- 

 ably certain that the trees can be sold when they are of the 

 right size. Where this condition obtains, the establishment of 

 a Christmas-tree plantation should not only be a good invest- 

 ment, but, also, to an owner with imagination, a very satis- 

 fying way of using a part of his land. 



THE NATURAL SETTING OF EVERGREENS.— Simonds 

 In landscape work. Nature is the best teacher in the use of 

 evergreens as well as that of other growth. In visiting localities 

 in which evergreens thrive, one is usually impressed with their 

 beauty and wishes to have them about one's own home. The 

 effects that should be studied are often found at the edges of a 

 forest, or scattered along river-banks and margins of lakes and 

 marshes. Here trees may range in size from less than a foot in 

 height to those of large stature. The growth may include pines, 

 spruces, cedars, balsams, hemlocks, junipers, and yews in the 

 northern Middle States, and, in the Eastern States, broad- 

 leaved evergreens as well. In the Middle West the more hardy 

 conifers can generally be used with good effect where soil 

 conditions are right and the air pure, but in the larger cities, 

 with their smoky atmosphere, it is useless to plant any member 

 of the pine family. Sometime in the future, when cities can be 

 delivered from the pall of smoke that hangs over them, they 



