TREES OUTSIDE THE GARDEN 



Long Island appeared to be either dead or dying, 

 but later they responded to the warm weather and put 

 forth their usual show of life. Still, a salient objection 

 to them is that they continually drop their dead leaves. 

 To keep a walk or an avenue near them clean requires 

 daily attention. Many experts, nevertheless, include 

 them among the best of our hardy shade trees. 



At the botanical garden in Algiers, there is an 

 avenue flanked by plane trees which have attained such 

 astonishing proportions that they dwarf everything 

 else within the garden, raising themselves toward the 

 sky like mute specters. There they are in truth at 

 home, while in America they are foreigners to the soil 

 and their growth in comparison is as that of pygmies 

 to giants. 



Among the poplars, the Carolina poplar, Popuhis 

 deltoides, has been used extensively as a shade tree 

 along our coasts. Unfortunately, like most of its 

 relatives, it falls under the bane of being short-lived, 

 and also has the sad habit of dropping its leaves. 

 But it is a tree of more rapid growth than any other 

 of the northeastern states, which in a measure makes 

 up for its other defects. Very often this characteristic 

 is underestimated, and the trees, in consequence, are 

 set much too closely together. 



The member of the ash family that is often seen 

 where the sea is not far distant is the green ash, Fraxinus 

 lanceolata. It is especially adapted to lawn planting, 

 as it develops a beautiful crown of delicately formed, 

 brilliantly green leaves, which change their color but 

 little in acknowledgment of the autumn. To plant 



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