These window and veranda boxes and potted trees come from the same “Hittle vtt Jfarmg” that supply our plantations and 
landscape plantings. Such hardy little trees thrive indoors as well as out. We are headquarters for tittle trees. Try them! 
FALL PLANTING OF LITTLE TREES 
F ALL planting is being more and more extensively practiced each year. The proper time to plant any 
kind of tree is when it can be given the best care and attention. During the late summer and autumn, 
property owners are usually at their country homes and estates, and can thus give the planting their 
personal supervision, and have the pleasure of laying out the work and watching its progress. The 
pleasure in making the plantation does not cease upon completion of the work, but is of recurring interest, 
year after year, as the trees grow larger and thus transform what was formerly an unsightly spot into a 
place of shade and restfulness. 
Estate owners find that labor is more easily procured in the autumn than in the spring, when all avail¬ 
able labor is necessarily needed for the large volume of routine work occurring during that season. Trees 
set out in autumn get well established before the ground freezes, and thus get an early start in spring. 
Trees transplanted in the fall frequently make better growth during the following summer than those set 
out in the intervening spring. 
Land which is better adapted to the growing of trees than to any other use is often too wet to be 
planted easily in spring, but may be satisfactorily planted in fall. In dry, wind-swept places fall planting 
is not desirable. In some regions there is more moisture in fall than in the months immediately following 
the spring planting season; this is a great advantage. Where it is not so, unless the ground is naturally 
moist, the importance of available water or mulch must be remembered. 
FALL SEASON FOR EVERGREENS: Fall planting should be regulated by conditions rather than 
by date; as long as the ground is damp and free from frost, transplanting is safe. The latter part of 
August and the whole of September are the proper fall season for transplanting most kinds of evergreens. 
FALL SEASON FOR DECIDUOUS TREES: October and November are desirable months for trans¬ 
planting deciduous trees. The general rule for hardwoods is to transplant as soon as the leaves begin to 
color. By removing the leaves, the work may be done somewhat earlier if necessary. 
START A LITTLE TREE GARDEN THIS AUTUMN 
Why not plant rows or beds of little trees in your garden, to be set in permanent places as they grow large enough? You can use 
them for borders and hedges, along paths, and around the vegetable garden; and as they grow, keep such hedges as you wish, trans¬ 
planting the other trees where they are needed on your property. They will afford you pleasure and interest from the first, and 
greatly lessen the expense of the ultimate plantation. 
The little trees require very slight care, practically nothing but weeding, and their varied characteristics and their frequent 
changes from season to season are a constant delight and surprise. They grow rapidly, some kinds doubling their growth annually 
for several seasons, while others increase from one to three feet each year. 
Such a little tree garden, or a private nursery,—and of these we have furnished hundreds, adds much to the value of an estate. 
Transplanting can be done at any time, without delay, and at any stage when plants are ready to produce the effect desired. Set them 
on some waste land or unsightly spot, in groves or singly, along an avenue, or to use as windbreaks, screens, or hedges. 
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