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charming is the Kentucky coffee tree. ‘The male 
combines a drooping form with fine spread of 
limbs and elegant foliage. I know of no insects 
that ever assail it. Elms must be planted only 
where you have abundant room for their full ex- 
pansion —not less than a diameter of a hundred 
feet. A white elm is intensely individualized. It 
is itself, to the finger-tips of every limb. It has no 
desire for coperation, and it does not like close 
neighborhood. The red elm is unfit for lawns, 
because it is in a stage of indecision in its evolu- 
tion —not quite willing or ready to spread out its 
limbs low down, and not quite ready to lift them 
aloft like a white elm. The cork barked elm 
can be found very generally in the New England 
States and New York, and is fine for a small lawn. 
This tree also does not like to be crowded. The 
cork barked maple is peculiarly suited to small 
lawns, having a very round head, not exceeding 
twenty feet in diameter — rarely that. 
Among our native trees, I know of few that for 
general planting are preferable to the magnolia 
acuminata —a thoroughly hardy tree, growing as 
erect as an arrow could be shot. This tree holds 
its arm in a fine curve, without the least drooping. 
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