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PREFACE. 
The preparation of the following pages has not 
been with intention to exhibit or inculcate anything 
specially new, but rather to put in plain, every-day 
accessible form some features connected with trees 
and shrubs for planting in streets, parks, private 
grounds, cemeteries, etc., and their value for such 
purposes, that would readily enable the improver of 
a new place to answer for himself a question often 
asked, viz., “ What shall I plant ?” 
I have endeavored, in plain language, to depict 
the leading prominent habits of trees, to give some- 
what of the heights, etc., fo which they attain, and 
the soils in which they best succeed. I have also 
ventured to suggest some of the places and positions 
in which their use will be most satisfactory. 
I have made no attempt to give a list of all known 
trees and shrubs, nor to classify them scientifically ; 
nor yet have I designed to forestall the needs of a 
