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the city use these trees. The stately Lawson Cypress will give 
scale. A Cedar of Lebanon will introduce character and deep 
shadows. A Colorado Blue Spruce may either ornament the 
lawn or add a high light to a group of dark Pines. The berries 
and autumn leaves of Mountain Ash, the blossoms of Haw- 
thorns and the gold of the Acacia will lend their colors to the 
composition. Elms, Maples, and Lindens will protect shade- 
loving plants from the sun. Do not bring Manzanita and 
Madrone from the hills, Palm and Cactus from the desert, 
expecting them to exhale in the garden a breath of the open. 
They may do so just once and die. If they live, their chains 
will be visible to all who have a sense of the eternal fitness of 
things. 
What Fits about the Country Home 
I N THE country anything may thrive. Trees, as well as 
human beings, like to get back to nature. As the city dweller 
tries to bring the country to the city so, frequently, it may be 
desired to bring to the country a beat from the heart of the 
metropolis. In such cases it were better to secure the effect 
with something other than trees. 
There is a distinction between domestic trees for the city and 
those for the country that is difficult to define. A cow is a 
domestic animal, but she does not belong in the city. A Syca- 
more is a domestic tree that is characteristic of the country. So 
are the Oaks, Alders, Elders, Peppers, and Willows. Birches are 
used by many gardners to adorn city lawns. They are always 
beautiful, but 1 have seldom felt that they were happily placed 
there. In the suburban garden they are more at home. Here 
may be a stream along whose banks they will thrive, joining in 
contented chorus with the Dogwood and Azaleas. 
Of all the trees most in harmony with the country place none 
can compare with the Sycamore, Oak, Poplar and Sugar 
Maple. For centuries poetry and legend have identified the 
Oak and the Sycamore with the home. That they belong in- 
the country is only another evidence that there alone may be 
found a home in the true sense of the word. The Lombardy 
Poplars are particularly proper in the country. They are not 
so formal as the Italian Cypress and yet have the architectural 
lines that suggest human thought and order. Acacias, Elms, 
Walnuts, Magnolias, Tulip-trees, and Silk-oaks are other har- 
monious notes in the country. 
The deciduous trees are much less likely to be out of char- 
acter in the country place than the evergreens. It is the 
conifers that must be selected with most care. Here, as well as 
in the city, trees should not be planted merely because they will 
grow. It is not out of place to seek domestic trees from foreign 
lands. From Japan we may call for Thuyas and Cryptomerias; 
from England Yews and the Holly; from Italy the Pines and 
Cypress. 
For conifers in the country place there are Italian Stone 
Pines, Cedars of Lebanon, some native Firs and Cedars, Deodars, 
Cypress, and Cryptomeria, and many others that will fit in 
perfectly with the domestic atmosphere of a home in the 
country. As for employing exotic trees merely because they 
are beautiful to gaze upon, I would not drag a mountain Hem- 
lock from its silent vigil by the border of a snow-rimed tarn for 
all the gardens in Christendom. 
F. M . Fraley. Photo. 
THE CYPRESS TREES OF PEBBLE BEACH, CALIFORNIA 
“Forms grotesque and tragic, bent by the salt winds of ages, in their gnarled 
and twisted trunks may be seen griffins, gnomes, and elves” 
