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LAWK AND SHADE TREES. 
Among the millions in nurseries, all grown from seed, a large 
number have no characteristics to ever make them trees of 
grandeur, while yet they may be trees of beauty. The planter 
in selecting should look for plants with long, pendent shoots, 
rather than stiff, erect, or horizontal ones, as it is only the former 
Fig. 38. — The American Red Spruce. 
that will make trees of the greatest beauty. For masses or 
groups, this swaying, drooping, picturesquely-graceful habit is 
of less consequence than when the tree is to stand by itself, and_ 
for hedge or belt screen growing, to which the Norway is well 
adapted, the close, stiff, erect-growing plants are probably the 
