Mixed planting that effectually cools the house and yard. Four lo-foot 

 Silver Maples, and five 3-foot Norway Spruces. Total only $3. Norway 

 Maples, Blue Spruce, Hemlock, White Pine, etc., would be better, and a 

 $5 Privet hedge should be added. $15 is little enough to appropriate 

 for planting at such a home. 



Why It Pays to Plant Shade 

 Trees and Evergreens 



THE CASH VALUE OF SHADE TREES 



Three thousand two hundred and seventy dollars 

 for a row of shade trees a mile long! This is the 

 cash value set by Government Forest Ser^^ice 

 men on despised Cottonwood trees forty years old, 

 for their lumber-value only. The men go on to 

 prove that the protection given crops and build- 

 ings by this mile-long row of trees during the forty 

 years is worth thirty-five thousand five hundred and 

 eighty-five dollars. 



The report was made after these same experts had 

 examined a hundred and thirteen such plantings. 

 Had the row been of Nor^vay Maples. American 

 Elms, Ash or Beeches, or some other high-grade 

 shade trees, its value would have been double this 

 amount. This is not theory, or a dream of some 

 college professor; but careful figuring of actual 

 benefit that was accomplished. Equalh' \aluable 

 results can be secured from the same kind of 

 planting in almost any neighborhood. 



