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form, or complete the building of our trees. 

 While it is important, in fact, while it is 

 absolutely essential to success that the planter 

 have an ideal tree in mind when he begins his 

 work, it is equally important that he stick to 

 it. Not only for one year, but he should keep 

 the one ideal constantly before his mind, just 

 as the architect does, until the building is com- 

 pleted. Great care should be taken in decid- 

 ing upon the ideal, as it will prove much more 

 difficult, and even more expensive, to change 

 the plan of your trees after the building has 

 been begun than it is to change the plans of 

 the house, and every one knows how expensive 

 that would be. 



The Ideal Tree. — ^The purpose for which 

 a tree is grown and the tastes or fancies of the 

 grower, together with the variety of the tree, 

 whether it be for ornament, or for shade, will 

 largely determine the ideal. If for the latter, 

 such as elm or maple, there should be enough 

 length of stem or trunk to allow an abundance 

 of room beneath long spreading boughs. The 

 head or top should be dense, so that the sun 

 could not even penetrate it. We should not fail 

 to have our ideals even in our shade trees, 

 neither should we fail to plant and care for 

 them, not only for tl?e comfort and beauty 



