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LAWH AND SHADE TREES. 



It is admirably suited as a lawn tree for small plots, and for 

 grouping with other round-headed deciduous trees of larger 

 growth. In this latter position it should always be on the out- 

 side of the group. It grows very rapidly while young, but after 

 attaining a height of fifteen to twenty feet its growth is more 

 moderate. It is a tree well suited for planting on the narrow 

 avenues of cemeteries, and for bold, rugged fronts of rocky 

 banks; but is of too small size for roadsides or park avenues. 



Upon lawns of large extent, an elegant monster shrub tree 



Fig. 15.— Osagb Obangb. 



can be created from the osage orange by annually heading it 

 back near to the ground until it is induced to send up a dozen 

 leading stems instead of one ; these again, as they grow, want 

 heading back more or less from year to year, until the plant 

 becomes a gigantic bush rather than a tree. 



The tree is easily and, generally, very successfully transplanted ; 

 and although it grows most vigorously in a deep, rich, light 

 loam, yet it will grow freely in any soil not wet. 



PopLAB — Populus. — ^Many of the poplars are valuable trees iit 



