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 
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