HARRISON’S NURSERIES, BERLIN, MD. 
WHAT SHADE TREES PROTECT 
AND SAVE 
Brief mention needs to be made of other services 
rendered by shade trees. Imagination will take 
care of the details when the facts are pointed out. 
Suppose your house and barn are fifty yards or so 
apart, or other buildings are located only that far 
away. If one burns down, the other is pretty sure 
to catch if there is no barrier between. The heat 
itself will be enough to crack the window-panes. 
Trees between will prevent this danger—they will 
be pretty well destroyed themselves by a fire, but 
they will save your buildings, and that is service 
enough. 
Again, there may be an ugly, raw bluff, or a 
filthy looking tannery, or a black coal-breaker 
right near your house. On a farm, it may be the 
barn or hog-pen that you don’t exactly regard as 
the most beautiful thing in the landscape. A row 
of shade trees will cut off this view, and give a 
beautiful, pleasing wall of green. Let Grape-vines 
or other climbers run over the trees, and you will 
have a windbreak and a year-round screen that 
can’t be beat. Sometimes Pear trees are used for 
such screens, and they make very good ones. The 
screen idea will produce great improvements around 
many homes. 
Shade trees planted close together, two or three 
rods back from a path or road, will keep snow from 
drifting over it. The drift will form a few feet 
inside the line of trees, but will not extend far. 
When trees are planted thickly close to the house, 
there is a great difference in the life of paint. It 
often has come under our notice that the paint on 
the side of a house protected by trees, after several 
years, apparently is in as good condition as when 
first put on; while not ten feet away, on an un¬ 
protected area, the very same applications are 
worn by sun, rain and driving sleet till the wood is 
bare. 
If the trees can protect the outside of the house 
like this, it easily is seen how they help with heat¬ 
ing the inside. The force of wind and storm is 
broken before it reaches the wall. It does not 
penetrate. One man who has a nine-room house 
in the country says that he used to burn from 
fifteen to nineteen tons of coal in his furnace every 
winter, but now, since his tree protection has 
grown up, he uses less than ten. That little item 
more than pays the entire cost of his trees. 
A combination of windbreak and screen is worth 
