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cago was clearly demonstrated 
and it was astonishing to see 
well-kept gardens under the 
shadow of a large factory or 
amid dust and soot-covered rail- 
road yards, and how beneficent 
and cheerful these are, only 
those can appreciate who spend 
their lives in the heart of a great 
city. 
To others who desire to beau- 
tify their homes on these lines, 
I would recommend the plant- 
ing of more permanent plants, 
such as shrubbry, climbing 
plants, and herbaceous peren- 
nials, at the same time not dis- 
regarding the many pretty and 
interesting annuals whose ideal 
home is the border along the 
walk or fence. Fruit bearing 
vines and trees for economic 
purposes should be introduced 
along the rear and side walls 
and over the portico, where 
there is sufficient room. They 
not only give an abundant 
shade, but supply the table with 
a luxury J. T_ 
honorable mention tribune garden contest. 
Yard of Charles M. Miller, 1161 W. Cong-ress St., Chicago. This designhas since received a 
prize of $100 offered by the Ladies’ Home Journal. 
TREE MOVING— I. 
Large trees are sometimes moved as an alternative 
to waiting for a small tree to develop to approximately 
its ultimate proportions. As an expedient for securing 
an early and more effective result the moving of large 
trees has distinct merits. A successful operation im- 
plies that after a tree has been moved it will continue 
to thrive. 
Moving large trees is expensive and costs varyingly 
from $15 to $25 as a minimum to $250 to $800 as a 
maximum for each. Prices range according to the 
size of the tree, conditions attending the moving, dis- 
tance of transportation, the party conducting the oper- 
ation, etc. The former price applies to specimens 
from four to five inches in trunk diameter, the latter 
to trees twelve to thirty inches or more. 
To possess isolated specimens or for the formation of 
groups the moving of large trees is sometimes advis- 
able. But for use as street trees or in certain other 
formal surroundings where uniformity is essential, 
they may be undesirable. Some specimens in a 
row' may die or thrive less vigorously than others and 
a suitable duplicate may not be planted or proper 
means to obtain a correction of uneven growth may 
be neglected, to the injury of the resultant effect. Ad- 
vantage is gained, however, by the use of large speci- 
mens, because trees with approximately uniform thrift 
and shape are apt to be selected, whereas if the sizes 
usually purchased from nurseries are planted, the rate 
of growth and form may vary to a large degree and 
may not be known until it would involve exhorbitant 
cost to correct it. 
Considerable importance should be attached to the 
selection of the trees. If a tree is to be moved to a 
dry clay soil on a steep slope, one growing under sim- 
ilar circumstances is desirable. Special emphasis at- 
taches itself to careful inspection while making a se- 
lection. Thus a tree growing on a slope may be sup- 
plied with w'ater from a water table about a foot be- 
neath the surface of the ground. The depth to which 
its roots would penetrate or the distance they spread 
would vary under such circumstances from what might 
occur were the water table much lower. 
A tree growing in forest density is apt to have thin- 
ner and softer bark and would therefore be less suit- 
able for removal to an isolated and wind swept loca- 
tion than one growing in isolation and subject to con- 
ditions and circumstances more nearly approximating 
those by which it would be influenced in its new posi- 
tion. 
Growing'hi a sandy, porous, or fertile loam, it may 
have developed a root system not well suited to the 
poorer areated and heavier clay soil to which it is to 
be transplanted. 
Due consideration would be given to the character- 
istics of the natural development of the sort of tree it 
is contemplated to move. Some, as for instance the 
hickory and white oak, form a top root which, if cut 
just before moving, will materially weaken the recup- 
erative power of the tree. 
The successful moving of such trees may be assisted 
