TREES 
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and hickorys, and all the forest royalties pos- 
sibly can. However strange it may seem to us 
at first to think of using fruit trees altogether, 
there is, too, most ancient and excellent pre- 
cedent for them rather than ornamental trees, 
in such planting. Indeed our present practice 
is very modern — almost of to-day only — and 
prevails only where man has not yet learned 
values — where proportions are distorted. 
But whatever the choice, the first and most 
important thing to be settled about a tree on 
small grounds especially, is its location. This 
is influenced by several things, some with an 
elusive tendency to wait until the tree planter 
has done his work before presenting them- 
selves. The thought of shade and inviting 
summer coolness is probably uppermost, for 
one thing, when trees are being considered, 
which is quite right and natural. But the maxi- 
mum shadow and shelter from sun and heat 
are not by any means always attained in the way 
that seems most likely at first thought. For 
the impulse is usually to shade the dwelling; 
whereas it is the earth from which heat is re- 
flected into the dwelling that should be shaded, 
rather than the building. Shutters provide for 
the house itself, its windows and doors, in- 
finitely better protection from the sun than 
