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When setting trees, tie old burlap 
around the trunk before attaching 
guy ropes 
Then the ropes may be secured. 
At least three guys are needed for 
each tree 
The Best Baker’s Dozen of Evergreen Trees 
(Continued from page 28) 
tinction between it and the white spruce 
very definite—and because I want to say 
that there is no reason for planting it, 
now that we know better. It is a dark 
and gloomy tree; and it has a tendency 
to grow ragged and ugly at the top, as it 
matures. Its rapid growth and hardi¬ 
ness are, of course, the reasons for its 
great popularity; but the white spruce is 
as hardy, grows fast enough, if not as 
fast, and therefore has all the other’s 
good points with none of its bad. 
For striking loveliness the oriental 
spruce comes next, for there is no other 
conifer that has flowers of such beauty, 
lighting up the entire mass of the tree. 
"Flowers” are, I know, the very last 
thing one expects to consider in dealing 
with evergreens; nevertheless, here is a 
tree that is ablaze at the flowering season 
—in May or thereabouts—with little 
scarlet, upstanding catkins suggestive, as 
someone has said, of red Christmas 
candles. Against the rich color of its 
unusually dark, shining foliage they 
make it one of the most striking and 
beautiful of evergreens, their effect being 
heightened by the peculiar grace which 
comes of the fact that, though its 
branches are ascending, its branchlets 
are pendulous. 
The one fault to be found with it is 
the likelihood of late spring frosts dis¬ 
coloring it sometimes. But as the re¬ 
sult of this is only temporary, it is not 
sufficient reason for not using it, to my 
mind. The species is slow growing, 
however; so for those who demand 
speed, it is not the tree. 
It hardly seems fair to put the hem¬ 
lock spruce fourth in any list; yet here 
I am, just arrived at it, after exhausting 
adjectives in dealing with three others. 
I am bound to confess that the fact 
of the hemlock’s winter burning is 
against it; and that as a tree it is not 
adaptable to all sorts and conditions 
of places. As a sheared hedge, however, 
there is nothing in the world that the 
hemlock need take a second place for: 
and as a thick forest planting, hemlock 
trees are a delight, for the foliage sprays 
are delicate and feathery and graceful, 
(Continued from page 74) 
When planting in late summer, Newly planted evergreens need 
soak the ground about the trees spraying with a hose every day for 
thoroughly two weeks 
