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LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 
It is admirably suited as a lawn tree for small plots, and for 
grouping with other round-headed deciduous trees of larger 
growth. In this latter position it should always be on the out- 
side of the group. It grows very rapidly while young, but after 
attaining a height of fifteen to twenty feet its growth is more 
moderate. It is a tree well suited for planting on the narrow 
avenues of cemeteries, and for bold, rugged fronts of rocky 
banks ; but is of too small size for roadsides or park avenues. 
Upon lawns of large extent, an elegant monster shrub tree 
Fig. 15 .— Osage Orange. 
can be created from the osage orange by annually heading it 
back near to the ground until it is induced to send up a dozen 
leading stems instead of one ; these again, as they grow, want 
heading back more or less from year to year, until the plant 
becomes a gigantic bush rather than a tree. 
The tree is easily and, generally, very successfully transplanted ; 
and although it grows most vigorously in a deep, rich, light 
loam, yet it will grow freely in any soil not wet. 
Poplar — Populus . — Many of the poplars are valuable trees in 
