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insure their steady growth and healthful de- 

 velopment. 



TREES ON LARGE CITY LOTS 



Of course, where a city lot measures as much 

 as one hundred feet in width and one hundred 

 and fifty feet in depth trees may be used to ad- 

 vantage, for some shade about the house is an 

 absolute necessity if the hot days of our sum- 

 mer months are to be spent with comfort and 

 if we are to be protected from the cold of our 

 bleak and dreary winters. But this does not 

 mean that they are as available as decorative 

 material to the planter of such a yard as they 

 are to the landscape gardener who is working 

 on the extensive area of a country estate. On 

 the latter, trees are used to hide unattractive 

 views or to form backgrounds against which 

 other ornamental materials are employed and 

 here also they may stand for their own indi- 

 vidual beauty. On such a place they have "pur- 

 pose"; there is motive for their planting. On 

 the small city lot there is seldom the one or the 

 other. 



Frequently, however, city lots are purchased 

 whereon already a tree of large size has estab- 

 lished itself. Where such is the case every ef- 



