Art Out-of-Doors 



was intended to form a screen to shut out 

 some unsightly object, or to conceal the 

 limits of the place. When first planted it 

 did form such a screen, although of in- 

 considerable height, and with judicious thin- 

 ning it might have remained a screen while 

 its height increased. But left unthinned, 

 with no room to spread its branches and no 

 light and air for their nourishment, it has 

 grown into a spindling row of bare stems 

 which carry poorly developed heads of foliage 

 far in the upper air, while between them the 

 undesirable object can be plainly seen. 



In still another place we find two or three 

 trees growing so close together that their 

 branches meet and the growth of each has 

 been checked on the side toward its neigh- 

 bor. Then, if the trees are of the same spe- 

 cies, they may look well if they stand so very 

 close that the effect is that of a single hand- 

 some head supported by two or three trunks. 

 But even when they are of the same species 

 they look badly if they stand so far apart 

 that we realize we have several poorly grown 

 specimens where we might have had a sin- 

 gle one in beautiful development. And the 



