HARRISON'S NURSERIES, BERLIN, MP. 



trees. Shrubs and roses, of course, are the chief 

 source of flowers and fragrance. Birds nest in any 

 thick trees, but for protection against cold, or 

 from hawks, etc., they prefer evergreens. 



To secure beauty of landscape all you need is 

 properly to arrange tall and low trees, dark and 

 light ones, shade and evergreen trees, and those 

 that differ in form. If you like to work with your 

 trees, plant those that need a good deal of trimming 

 and cultivation ; if you think they should get along 

 without much attention, choose those that grow 

 naturally as you want them to be. 



HOW TO PLANT 



First of all, get good trees. That means trees 

 with thousands of fine, fibrous, roots close to their 

 crowns; trees with straight trunks of the right 

 height, and, if by nature they should have limbs 

 when you get them, they should be developed 

 evenly on all sides, so the future heads will be 

 round and symmetrical; trees full of vitality and 

 vigor, and free from disease, and not stunted. 



Those fine roots are produced only by repeated 

 transplantings or root-prunings. If trees are 

 allowed to grow where the seeds come up, they will 

 develop long roots that must be broken when the 

 trees are dug for moving to your place. This 

 leaves them with small feeding and anchoring 

 facilities, and they suffer such a shock that it 

 usually kills them; or, if they do live, they require 

 several years to recover. But when they have 

 plenty of fine roots they are able to take right hold 

 in their new location. Such trees seldom die. 



On the kind of care your trees receive in the nur- 

 sery depends the grade of trees you will have when 

 they grow up, and, to a certain extent, how fast 

 they will grow. The tender trunks of the little 

 trees must be kept growing straight and true, 

 from the very seed. When wrong limbs start they 

 must be rubbed off. If branches are allowed to 

 grow in wrong places or directions, the trees fail 

 to develop in places and directions where growth 

 is needed. So you see that if trees are to develop 

 into the symmetrical outline which we all admire 

 so much, they must receive the most careful atten- 

 tion every week during their half dozen years or 

 so in the nursery. If they are neglected, you cannot 

 tell it by their looks when you buy them to plant, 

 but it comes out three or four years later when 

 your expectations of fine trees are disappointed by 

 the development of lopsided or scraggy specimens. 



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