HARRISON'S NURSERIES, BERLIN, MP. 



WHAT SHADE TREES PROTECT 

 AND SAVE 



Brief mention needs to be made of other services 

 rendered by shade trees. Imagination will take 

 care of the details when the facts are pointed out. 

 Suppose your house and barn are fifty yards or so 

 apart, or other buildings are located only that far 

 away. If one burns down, the other is pretty sure 

 to catch if there is no barrier between. The heat 

 itself will be enough to crack the window-panes. 

 Trees between will prevent this danger — they will 

 be pretty well destroyed themselves by a fire, but 

 they will save your buildings, and that is service 

 enough. 



Again, there may be an ugly, raw bluff, or a 

 filthy looking tannery, or a black coal-breaker 

 right near your house. On a farm, it may be the 

 barn or hog-pen that you don't exactly regard as 

 the most beautiful thing in the landscape. A row 

 of shade trees will cut off this view, and give a 

 beautiful, pleasing wall of green. Let Grape-vines 

 or other climbers run over the trees, and you will 

 have a windbreak and a year-round screen that 

 can't be beat. Sometimes Pear trees are used for 

 such screens, and they make very good ones. The 

 screen idea will produce great improvements around 

 many homes. 



Shade trees planted close together, two or three 

 rods back from a path or road, will keep snow from 

 drifting over it. The drift will form a few feet 

 inside the line of trees, but will not extend far. 

 When trees are planted thickly close to the house, 

 there is a great difference in the life of paint. It 

 often has come under our notice that the paint on 

 the side of a house protected by trees, after several 

 years, apparently is in as good condition as when 

 first put on; while not ten feet away, on an un- 

 protected area, the very same applications are 

 worn by sun, rain and driving sleet till the wood is 

 bare. 



If the trees can protect the outside of the house 

 like this, it easily is seen how they help with heat- 

 ing the inside. The force of wind and storm is 

 broken before it reaches the wall. It does not 

 penetrate. One man who has a nine-room house 

 in the country says that he used to burn from 

 fifteen to nineteen tons of coal in his furnace every 

 winter, but now, since his tree protection has 

 grown up, he uses less than ten. That little item 

 more than pays the entire cost of his trees. 



A combination of windbreak and screen is worth 



