TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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Why it Pays to Plant Shade Trees and Evergreens. 3 



The Cash Value of Shade Trees 3 



The Real, The Big Benefits 4 



The Comfort of Maples on a Hot Day 5 



Shade Trees and Cool Sleeping-Roomt 6 



What Shade Trees Protect and Save 8 



Help to Gardens with Shade Trees 9 



Colors and Fragrance of Some Shade Trees 10 



Three Suggestions for Farms 11 



The Comparative Cost of Hedges for Fences. ... 12 



How to Grow Perfect Hedges; to Plant and Trim i4 



People \Vho Most Need Privet Hedges 15 



Clean Up Rubbish Piles and Plant Trees and Hedges 16 



Public Parks, Squares and School Grounds 16 



Educate the People of Your Community 17 



How We Can Help You Plant Trees and Hedges 18 



What Trees to Plant along Your Street 20 



The Great Good of Evergreens about Homes 20 



Where and Wlien to Plant Evergreen Hedges 20 



Why Forest Trees Will Not Do for Home Planting 21 



Increase in Value of Property from Planting 22 



Helps for Those WTio Plant 23 



Chsiracter of the Place to be Planted 24 



Forms Which Planting May Take 29 



How to Plant 32 



Shade Trees, Maple, etc 36 



Miscellaneous Shade Trees . . 39 



Evergreens .42 



Evergreen Hedge Plants .49 



Hedge Plants 50 



Shrubs .52 



Vines 54 



Roses 55 



Hardy New Peonies 56 



Prices 56 



INDEX 



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Arbor\ntae 45 Laurel .49 



Ash, Black 39 Linden. . . .40 



Barberr>' 52 Live Fences 30 



Beeches 39 Locust 40 



Birch 40 Maples 36 



Box Elder 38 Moisture Saving 9, 10 



Boxwood 52 Oak 41 



Catalpa 40 Paint Protection 8 



Cedar 47 Parks 16 



Chestnut 40 Pasture Shade 11 



Chicken-yard Shade 11 Pecan 41 



Colors in Leaves 10, 30 Peonies 56 



Cool Sleeping-rooms 6, 7 Pine 44 



Cost of Hedge 12, 13 Privet Hedge 5, 12, 49 



Cypress 47 Plane Tree 41 



Elm 40 Planning to Plant 18 



Evergreens 20 Plant, How to 23 



Evergreens, Hedge 20 Retinospora 47 



Field Protection 9. lo Rhododendron 49 



Fir 46 Roses 55 



Fire Protection 8 School Grounds 16 



Frost Prevention 9, 10 Screens 8, 30 



Ginkgo Tree 40 Selection of Trees 19, 23 



Garden Protection 9, 10 Shelter Belts 9, 10, 30 



Grass and Shade 5, 6 Single Specimens 30 



Ground Cover 30 Snow-break 8 



Heating House 8,9 Spruce 43 



Hedges 1 5. 30 Street Trees 20 



Hemlock 44 Timber Planting 11, 30 



Homes for Birds 30 Trimming Hedge 13, 14 



How to Plant Trees 32 Vines 54 



How to Grow Hedge 14 Walnut 41 



Juniper 48 Warmer Houses 8, 9 



Landscape Beauty 30 What to Plant 24, 25 



Landscape Gardening 18 Wild Trees 21 



Laundry Screens 9 Windbreaks 9, 10 



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