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PARK AND CKMBTERY 
WINDING STREET WITH IKREGUEAK BORDER PEANTING — 
Where the g'eneral scheme sug'gests another treatment. 
surroundings, or form a good composition them- 
selves. For this reason we should not select to ordi- 
narily intermix in the plantation of a city street, Nor- 
way maples. Tulip trees, European Larch and white 
Birch and American Elms. The complexity of forms 
as seen in perspective with the edifices would be in- 
congruous. Similar, how'ever, is the frequent result 
of individual effort when guided by different or eVcn 
antagonistic aims. 
Trees should be studied with special reference to 
their size, quality and characteristics of development 
under varied eircumstances. Sorts should be selected 
w'ith a view' to obtaining good proportion to the width 
of street ; be in keeping with the style of architecture 
and the heights of buildings ; and preferred in part 
consideration of their general outlines, their position 
and density of their branches, and twdgs, and the dens- 
ity, size, tone and texture of their leaves. Having 
decided upon the most appropriate sort it should be 
planted in suffieient quantity to be impressive. It 
should also unite agreeably or contrast decidedly 
with the sort adjoining it. — Emil T. Mische. 
JAPAN MAPLES ON OUR WESTERN PRAIRIES. 
Attracted by the glowing description and beautiful 
illustrations sent out by eastern nurserymen I, for 
one, in all probability am not the only disappointed 
purchaser of these pretty maples. 
In the articles on “Echoes from Last Winter’s 
Freeze,” published by Am. Gardening in 1899, I 
think I included Acer japonicum in the list of those 
that froze baek some. This variety was the only one 
that pulled through the memorable winter of ’98- ’99. 
All of them were well protected with straw. Acer 
japonicum succumbed the following year, evidently 
from the effect of the previous winter. 
Under the protection of buildings (in the city) 
some of the Japanese maples have been known to re- 
main alive for a few years with no increase in growth 
whatsoever. I have seen them, a pitiful lot indeed, 
and I doubt very much if our eastern friends would 
have recognized their nurslings back. 
When I made my first trial with the Japanese ma- 
ples small plants were purchased and a sunny, shel- 
tered situation selected. Continuous failure made 
me buy large specimens but I met with the same re- 
sults. This applies whether planted out on perma- 
nent grounds or in the nursery rows. 
It would be interesting to know how far east of 
Chicago they can be grown successfully and I hope 
some one else will give us this information. I should 
not be surprised to find their belt within fifty miles 
from us and probably in close proximity to that of 
the Azaleas and their allies. JAMES JENSEN. 
AVENUE OF PIN OAKS, FAIRMOUNT PARK, 
PHILADELPHIA. 
A glimpse of the beautiful avenue of pin oaks 
growing in Fairmount Park is afforded by the ac- 
companying illustration. These trees, Mr. Miller 
informs me, have been growing in their present posi- 
tion about 20 years, and what beautiful trees they 
have become in that time the picture well shows. 
This avenue is much admired, and showing, as it 
does, what a desirable tree this species of oak is for 
the purpose, it has been the means of awakening a 
great interest in this and other oaks, causing a wide- 
spread desire to plant them instead of the many for- 
eign trees similar to what so* many of the older parks 
display. The beautiful cut leaved foliage of the pin 
oak as well as the downward growth of the lower 
branches are what make it so desirable for planting, 
as in this respect it differs from all other oaks known. 
The drooping character will be discerned in the illus- 
tration. 
Not only is it valued for the qualities mentioned, 
but there is another whieh has a great bearing on the 
case. The pin oak stands almost alone among oaks 
as being fairl}'- easy to transplant. There is but one 
other, the bicolor, which approaches it in this respect. 
As a rule before an oak can be transplanted it has 
to be mutilated most to death, the branches trimmed 
in and but little but the main stem left. Nothing so 
severe as this need be done to the pin oak. Just a 
fair pruning, such as an ordinary deciduous tree 
would require, is all that need be done. The appar- 
ent reason for this is that the tree is possessed of a 
great number of smallish roots, many more than 
most oaks produce. In the planting of this avenue 
not a single tree had to be replaced. Every tree 
