SHADE TREES AND EVERGREENS 
clean-cut lines, a home becomes the neatest place 
you know of—you are proud of it, you bring your 
friends there, and you want nothing better than 
to stay there always. 
THE COMFORT OF MAPLES ON A HOT DAY 
But the practical person has to be shown, and 
we are prepared to do it. You like to be out-of- 
doors in summer, say on Sunday afternoons and 
other such times? You can’t be comfortable in the 
glare of the sun; but if your yard is surrounded 
with a line of Norway Maples, there will be plenty 
of the finest kind of resting-places on the grass. 
Out under those thick Maples it will be cool and 
comfortable. It’s just the place to take a paper 
or a book, or to entertain visitors. 
The middle of the yard should not be planted. 
There you want a smooth, open space of grass. 
But around the edges—on the outside, instead of 
a wire fence, have a Privet hedge about five feet 
high and two feet thick. Inside this hedge you can 
plant some lilacs if you wish, or some other flower¬ 
ing shrubs. Maybe the “sweet-sixteener” of your 
house will want to plant some roses. There should 
be eight or ten feet, usually, between the live fence 
(Upper) Just reaching “the comfortable stage.” Five Sugar and 
Norway Maples, two Norway Spruces and an Apple tree. Cost to plant, 
with 9-foot Maples, 4-foot Spruces and 6-foot Apple, only $5. (Lower) 
Two attractive homes at Seaford, Del. Eight 9-foot Maples, two Pear 
trees, one 5-foot Birch, one Catalpa Bungei, and about seventy-five yards 
of hedge—3-foot Privet. Total cost, only $18. 
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