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relation. What is it to be — the purely polite 
and esthetic, or the practical and utilitarian? 
In other words, shall the selection be for 
shade and ornament, or for fruit? 
This is another of those questions which 
personal preference must decide. Almost any 
fruit tree, excepting the apple, may be used 
with quite as good effect pictorially anywhere 
as an ornamental tree. The apple alone, as 
usually grown, is too irregular in its form to 
be admitted to the formal environment of a 
small garden. It is something of an effort to 
wrench the mind free from traditional “ shade 
trees,” however, and not as yet are there many 
small garden examples to show the possibilities 
of such emancipation, or to furnish encourage- 
ment to the uncertain. 
Suburban streets will of course always be 
planted with ornamental trees, quite properly; 
but for those suburban gardens where trees are 
possible, I cannot bring myself to feel that they 
are quite as suitable, as a matter of fact, as 
the more truly domestic trees which have com- 
panied with man so many ages. The latter 
suit his immediate environment more com- 
pletely, consequently they suit the very artificial 
conditions which his presence en masse creates, 
very much better than oaks and elms, beeches 
