House and Garden 
O A R D E. 1 
MAY 1908 
N U M 13 B R 
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increase of two to four feet in height 
and one-quarter to one-half inch in diam¬ 
eter. After the first twenty-five or thirty 
years the average accretion both in 
height and diameter lessens, and by the 
fiftieth year usually almost ceases. 
When the tree is once established it 
sprouts vigorously from the root, so that 
coppice growth is easily maintained. 
1 he trees usually attain a height of forty 
to eighty feet, with a diameter of two 
to three feet. 
The largest and best locust tree is gen¬ 
erally found in well drained, deep clayey 
lowland soil, but it grows successfully on 
sandy and gravelly soils, and is said to 
produce more durable timber there than 
in better situations. On wet soils it is 
of slow growth and short lived. Its roots 
are shallow, and where the soil is poor 
reach out to great distances to obtain 
nutriment. The habit of shallow root¬ 
ing is in part accountable for its sprout¬ 
ing tendency as well as for its rapidity 
of growth and its adaptability to soils 
underlaid by tenacious subsoil. With 
favorable soil conditions locust trees 
grow almost as well on slopes and hill¬ 
sides as on level land . — New York 
Herald. 
WATERING AT PLANTING 
A QUESTION that even good gar- 
^ deners often ask is, whether trees 
should be watered at planting. Rec¬ 
ollecting that a tree cannot live without 
water, the question is an easy one to 
answer. A tree is not best planted when 
the ground is very wet, because the soil 
then goes in lumpy, and does not settle 
nicely around the roots. It is better 
for the soil to be rather dry so that it can 
be worked in well around the roots — an 
important point. When planted in this 
way, the soil rather dry, and then a good 
soaking of water given it, this carries the 
soil in close contact with the roots, just 
what the aim should be. The water 
should be poured in when the hole is 
about half filled with soil, and when it 
has soaked away the rest of the hole 
filled loosely. Watering in this way 
saves ramming the soil. Men laying 
water pipes in streets understand this 
and flood their filled in trenches with 
water when a quick settling is wanted. 
After trees have started to grow, and 
through the summer, they do not want 
perpetual waterings. Constant flood¬ 
ings of water often kill them. Unless 
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