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CONTENTS 



Before Buying Your Tree ... 1 



Select the Right Species . . 1 



Seek Professional Advice . . G 



Nursery Trees and Wild Trees 6 



When to Plant 8 



Other Considerations ... 9 



Chances of survival . . 9 



Soil pH requii-ements . . 9 



Buying Your Tree . ... 10 



Size to Buy 10 



Cost of Trees 10 



Moving Your Tree 10 



Tying-in Branches, Marking 



Orientation 11 



Digging the Tree 12 



Transporting the Tree . . .14 



Protecting the Roots ... 14 



Planting Your Tree 15 



Location 15 



Planting Procedures . . . .17 



Digging the hole ... 17 



Providing drainage . . 17 

 Improving soil fertility 



and texture .... 20 



Breaking the ball ... 20 



Placing the plant ... 20 



Filling the hole . ... 21 



Pruning 21 



Protecting Your Tree .... 21 



Bracing 22 



Wrapping 24 



Watering 25 



Maintaining Your Tree ... 26 



Pruning 26 



Fertilizing 28 



Watering 29 



Spraying 29 



Surgery .30 



Cavity Treatment 30 



Bracing and Cabling ... 31 



Grade Changes 32 



Lightning Protection ... 37 



Trees Considered 38 



Arborvitae 38 



Ash 39 



Bald Cypress 40 



Beech 41 



Birch .V 44 



Black Locust 45 



Buckeye 46 



Catalpa 47 



Cherry 49 



Chestnut 50 



Coffee Tree 51 



Cork Tree 52 



Crabapple 53 



Dogwood i-' 55 



Elm 56 



Ginkgo 59 



Goldenrain Tree 60 



Hackberry 61 



Hawthorn 63 



Hickory . . . ^^^_ ... 64 

 Honey Locust .^-^T . ... 67 



Hop Hornbeam 68 



Hornbeam 69 



Horse Chestnut 70 



Juniper 71 



Katsura Tree 73 



Larch 74 



Linden 75 



Magnolia 76 



Maple 78 



Mountain Ash 80 



Mulberry 82 



Oak 83 



Osage Orange 88 



Pagoda Tree 89 



Pawpaw 90 



Persimmon 92 



Pine 93 



Plum 100 



Poplar 102 



Redbud 104 



Russian Olive 105 



Sassafras 106 



Serviceberry 107 



Spruce 108 



Sweet Gum 109 



Sycamore 110 



Tree of Heaven 113 



Tulip Tree 114 



Tupelo 116 



Walnut 117 



Willow 119 



Yellowwood 121 



Zelkova 122 



Acknowledgments 123 



FRONT COVER ILLUSTRATION: White pine grows tall and straight in dense 

 plantings and may not have branches to a height of 60 feet or more. The 

 is^ trees shown here are in an area which originally had a dense stand. 



