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3 — Trees are furnished by the Arbor Club without cost to 
those who plant under the club’s auspices. 
4 — Everyone desirous of planting should apply for regis- 
tration and assignment of number. 
5 — The trees, stakes and other material will be distributed 
by the club along the road or delivered to the committees in 
charge of the various societies. 
6 — Every small stake along the road is a site for a tree 
and should mark, approximately, the position of the tree when 
planted. 
7 — Plant only the numbers assigned to you unless by per- 
mission of those in charge. 
8 — Every worker should provide his own implements— pick, 
spade, shovel, hammer and maul. When the work is done by 
small squads one maul, a crowbar, a hammer and a couple of 
picks may suffice. 
9 — Dig all holes two feet deep and two feet in diameter. 
10 — Put a cushion of soft top soil in the bottom of the hole. 
11 — Spread the roots out well and hold the tree upright 
wdrile sifting pulverized top soil among and over the roots. 
Press this earth firmly about the roots, using care not to 
bruise them. 
12 — When more earth is put in tamp it down well and con- 
tinue to tamp it firmly until it is nearly full. 
13 — Leave a layer of loose earth on the surface around the 
tree. 
14 — Loosen the soil around the tree several feet and leave a 
ridge forming a basin for convenient irrigation. 
15— — The best results in staking last year were obtained by 
planting the stakes in the hole at the same time the tree was 
planted and tapping them a few times to make them stand 
alone. 
16 — The stakes should stand from eight inches to ten inches 
apart on opposite sides of the tree, and, if possible, one stake 
should stand a little west of the south, so as to shade the tree 
from the fiercest rays of the sun in midsummer. 
17 — The protecting stakes should be driven solidly after the 
planting is completed and before the cleats are nailed on. 
Where the trees extend to the top of the stake two should 
be employed at this work, so that the tree may be bent to one 
side to avoid bruising. 
18 — Four cleats are to be used at each tree — two near the 
top and about one-third of the way down. Use two nails 
in each end of every cleat to make the tree box as firm as 
possible. 
19 — The wire netting should be wrapped around the tree 
and fastened firmly not more than six inches from the ground 
to prevent the depredations of sheep. The netting will prob- 
ably embrace the two lower cleats near its upper edge. 
20 — To cut the wire netting the bale should be unrolled 
along the ground and then, with wire-shears, two men can 
quickly cut it into the desired lengths. 
21 — Do all the work well and leave no trees partially planted. 
The protection is a necessary part of the work. 
22 — Be careful not to plant the trees deeper than they stood 
in the nursery. This can readily be determined from the earth 
marks. 
23 — 'The Arbor Club provides trees, stakes, cleats, nails, 
wire netting and staples. So far as possible, it will also dis- 
tribute these to the workers. 
24 — Do not use any tree or trees in any place except , the 
places assigned, as definite places have been provided by the 
Arbor Club for the distinct varieties. 
New Trees and Shrubs Lately Found in China. 
By John Dunbar.* 
During the past four years a very extensive addi- 
tion has been made to the hardy ornamental trees, 
shrubs and flowering plants through the travels and 
explorations of Mr. E. H. Wilson, a young graduate 
of Kew, the Royal Gardens in London. Mr. Wilson’s 
first exploration was in the Yangtsze valley in China ; 
and his second journey was through the Chinese-Tibe- 
tan frontier, and he has probably succeeded in discov- 
ering more rare, undetermined and new species of 
trees, shrubs and ornamental plants than any other 
man in recent times, with the exception perhaps of 
Dr. C. S. Sargent. It may be reasonably expected that 
as most of the large number of new species were found 
in the temperate zone and at considerable elevations, 
that a good many of them will prove hardy under trial, 
and be useful acquisitions in the gardens and parks of 
America and Europe. Davidia involuctra is one of the 
most important of the flowering trees found so far lately 
in that region. It is said that the large white bracts 
with which the flowers are subtended, mingling with 
the green leaves of the tree, give it an extraordinary 
and beautiful appearance. Clematis Armandi, an ever- 
green species with trifoliate leaves and with numerous 
* From the report on ornamental trees and shrubs in the 
“Annual Proceedings of the Western New York Horticultural 
Society for 1904.’’ 
white flowers borne in corymbs is said to be promis- 
ing. Two undetermined species of Clematis were found. 
Magnolia Delavayi, an evergreen species, will prob- 
ably not be hardy north of Philadelphia, but it is rep- 
resented as very showy. A new tulip tree was found, 
and is known in the meantime as Liriodendron tulipi- 
fera var. Sinense. 
Actinidia Chinensis has been rediscovered. It was 
first discovered by Fortune in Northern Japan in 1847, 
and it is said to have handsome foliage, beautiful flow- 
ers and edible fruit. Two hollies, Ilex macrocarpa and 
Ilex Perneyi, were found, and nine undetermined 
species. In the genus Vitis, Mr. Wilson found some 
beautiful vines ; Vitis megaphylla, Vitis Romaneti, 
Vitis Thompsoni and Vitis leeoides, all said to be 
variously handsome and interesting. With some other 
known species of Vitis, four undetermined species 
were discovered. 
Among the maples, nine known rare species were 
discovered, and, most extraordinary to relate, the ma- 
terial of fourteen undetermined species of maples was 
collected. 
Among the sumachs, three undetermined species 
were collected. In the Pulse family, one undetermined 
Desmodium, one undetermined Sophora, and rare 
