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from fifty to seventy feet high, with a top not more 

 than ten feet in diameter. None but trees bearing 

 staminate flowers have been introduced into this coun- 

 try; therefore it must be propagated by cuttings. It 

 will grow in any soil. In places where the streets 

 have been graded down into the pure sand, plant Lum- 

 bardy Poplars and they will grow. When they begin 

 to die at the top, saw them off eight or ten feet from 

 the ground and they will renew themselves with won- 

 derful rapidity. 



The Sycamore is a stately tree, and should, by no 

 means, be neglected. It prefers moist, rich land, but 

 does reasonably well here. 



The Grreen Ash — Fruxinus viridis, a native of our 

 forests, is a handsome, medium sized tree, and grows 

 reasonably well. In places that are not too much ex- 

 posed it is well worth planting. 



The European White Birch is a fine ornamental 

 and hardy tree. It will thrive in the dryest and most 

 barren soil. The cut-leaf variety is very ornamental. 

 It does not make much shade, and is well adapted to 

 inside planting in any part of the city. 



The American White Birch — Betula populifoUa — 

 which should probably be regarded as a variety of alba, 

 is also an ornamental tree, will thrive in the same 

 soil and is well worthy of cultivation. 



We are not now discussing the relative merits or 

 demerits of trees as trees, but their fitness for our pur- 

 pose. For beauty and durability, the Hard or Sugar 

 Maple^J.cer saccharinum, stands among the very first 

 forest trees of America or the world, but unfortunately, 

 except in a few places, it will not live between the bluff 



