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CEMBEH, 1910. 



Palm, Rose and Carnation Houses 



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One of them particularly illustrates the way the location difficulty 

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mended where the cold will turn it brown during 

 the winter. 



As nursery catalogues usually appear this month, 

 by ordering your fruit trees, berry bushes and 

 strawberry plants at once you will have them 

 delivered for planting in January and February. 

 Two years ago we had long continuous rains and 

 nurserymen found it so difficult to dig stock that 

 many late. orders were only filled in March. As 

 regards varieties it is best to consult neighbors, 

 and find which do best in your locality, as this 

 has much to do with success. Trees, shrubs, 

 roses and hedge plants may also be ordered 

 by the New Year, noting that in the colder 

 parts of the state Australian plants like acacia 

 and pittosporum are best planted in March, 

 while the hardy evergreens may very well go in 

 this month. 



California. Sydney B. Mitchell. 



Small Specimen and Lawn Trees 

 for the Northwest 



BIRCHES are hardy and easy to start but very 

 short lived. When a birch has attained its 

 best proportions — say thirty years — it not 

 infrequently dies without any apparent cause. 

 As birches are primarily ornamental trees the 

 weeping cut leaved variety should be selected as a 

 rule and placed so that it will appear to possess 

 some continuity with other features of the gar- 

 den. Against a group or even a single ever- 

 green the birches's white trunk shows up well in 

 winter. 



The mountain ash will grow in a variety of soils. 

 Though the trunk divides rather low down it will 

 form a symmetrical crown. The clusters of bright 

 red berries would be very ornamental if the 

 robins would only leave them alone, but so fond 

 are the birds of these berries that when the berries 

 begin to redden, a tree will be stripped in less than 

 a week. The heart -wood decays very easily and 

 neglected trees almost invariably become hollow. 

 Though not an ideal street tree I have seen it so 

 used with fair success. 



The choke- cherry with its clean straight trunk 

 and rather open top is a good tree for cramped 

 quarters. Both its flowers and fruit have a de- 

 corative value. The wild plum is a thorny way- 

 ward grower, but its hardiness recommends it. 

 Like the choke cherry it loves rich soil, but will 

 grow on gravel. Its fragrant bloom is a spring 

 time joy, nor is its fruit without culinary value. 

 It will hardly do on the front lawn, but is a nice 

 tree to have in the back-yard. The flowering 

 habit of both the choke-cherry and wild plum gives 

 them value as screens. The thorn apple can also 

 be used rather effectively, but requires some 

 pruning to be at its best. 



A PRACTICAL PLANTING PLAN 



By planting rapid growers together with long 

 lifed trees one may obtain immediate shade, while 

 at the same time providing for the future. This, 

 however, does not apply to those trees that we have 

 designated as primarily lawn trees. Cottonwoods 

 should be thinned out at an early age, and filled 

 in with boxelders. When these latter have at- 

 tained some size the remaining cottonwoods are 

 to be removed and more permanent trees, such as 

 elms, hackberries, Norway maples, or ashes set 

 in their places. Thus one sacrifices neither 

 immediate results nor permanency. Where box- 

 elders or soft maples are the first trees planted the 

 more enduring trees are best set out at the same 

 time with them. As a nurse tree, the soft maple 

 is even better than the boxelder. An added ad- 

 vantage of planting the various trees together 

 lies in the fact that a little crowding will help 

 the upward growth of the slower ones. An elm 

 will be most benefited, while a basswood may have 

 its symmetry impaired if the crowding be a little 

 in excess of its endurance. It is obvious that a 

 considerable number of combinations can be thus 

 efiected. 



In all this work, however, it must be borne 

 in mind that, as far as ornamental planting is 

 concerned, one well developed specimen tree is 

 worth many crowded individuals. 



North Dakota. C. H. Meller. 



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