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A COUNTRY HOME SURROUNDED WITH TREES 



Who can put a price on the value of such a grove? How cool 

 in summer! How shelteringly warm in winter!! The trees are 

 Maple, Elm, Ash and Beech. The shrubs are Thorn, Sumac, Elder, 

 Witch-hazel and Dogwood. 



It is not generally known that the intense summer heat is 

 ' appreciably modified by the presence of trees, aside from the shade 

 they give. They are constantly pumping water from the subsoil, 

 the temperature of which is 30 to 40 degrees colder than the 

 atmosphere; so that trees possess considerable coolness, which they 

 impart to the surrounding air. The same law prevails in the win- 

 ter, but the conditions are reversed: the air is colder than the trees 

 which, on this account, soon lose their warmth by radiation. Hence 

 the loss of many foliage plants through delays in transportation 

 in the winter, when the plants could withstand a short exposure 

 without injury. Many lawsuits have resulted to determine the 

 rights of floral shippers and to define what constitutes prompt 

 dispatch. 



A Country Home Siirrouinled «itli Trees 



A GRASS WALK IN A GARDEN 



Grass walks are very appropriate in a garden, as they are in 

 keeping with the general air of the place and tend to preserve the 

 unities. Besides, a good turf has a peculiar resiliency that is very 

 agreeable to the foot, its one fault being that immediately after a 

 rain it is too wet for comfortable walking, and that is just the time 

 that a garden is most interesting! At the same time it must be 

 remembered that neither a brick nor gravel walk is quite clean 

 after a rain, for more or less mud will splash unless a wide mar- 

 gin of grass be kept, in which case there will be double work to 

 do, namely, to edge the grass and sweep and wash the walk. Taken 

 altogether the grass walk will be very satisfactory in a small for- 

 mal garden. On the other hand if it is very large it will be better 

 to dispense with grass altogether and have merely walks and 

 flower-beds, in which case curbs of boards or light iron-sheeting, 

 partly sunken in the ground, will define the borders of both. 



In this garden are Crimson Eye, Pyrethrum, Boltonia, 

 Helianthus, Eulalia, etc. The trees in the background are Maples. 



I'Isile i::8. A GriiNM Walk in :i <;iii-<len 



