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SHADE TREE GUIDE. 



guard about it (figs. 5, 7). Apart from the pruning required when 

 a tree is planted most trees should be allowed to develop naturally. 

 Pruning as frequently practiced in butchery. (See p. 19 and fig. 12.) 

 Allow no tree to support a guy wire except under necessity. In that 

 case, and only if the tree is strong and healthy, let an eye bolt be 

 driven into the heart, or all the way thru, and the guy wire at- 

 tached to that ; no form of band should be tolerated except tempo- 

 rarily in an emergency. 



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Fig. 6. Trees Should Not Be Used to Anchor Guy Wires Except in an 



Emergency. 

 A — Never Attach a Guy in This Way. 



B A Temporary Guy Should Have Wood Blocks Under the Wire. 



C If a Tree is Sound, a Lag Screw Driven Into the Heart Will Hold 



a Guy Wire and Do Least Harm. 



Lawn Trees 



Planting. Any tree with ample space about it requires only • 

 to be secured against injury and to be supplied with food and water. 

 Deciduous trees should be planted exactly as recommended for 

 street trees except that stakes and guards are rarely required. Ever- 

 green trees, and a few deciduous species with succulent roots, as 

 Red Gum, must invariably be moved from the nursery with the 

 roots embedded in a ball of earth. When the hole has been pre- 

 pared and good earth supplied, loosen the bagging that encloses the 

 ball and set the tree with the earth still about its roots. 



As a rule laWn trees, like street trees, do best when planted in 

 early spring, tho evergreens allow greater latitude and often thrive 

 when moved in August. When that is done it is important to guard 

 them against strong winds in winter. 



Lawn trees ordinarily require less care than street trees, but a 

 circle at least 3 feet in diameter should be kept without sod about 

 the base of a newly planted tree of whatever kind, and the soil with- 

 in it worked frequently, until the tree is firmly established. Grass 



