HARRISON’S NURSERIES, BERLIN, MD. 
Our suggestion for planting at a small home in country town or on farm. 
Four evergreens, such as Blue, Norway or Douglas Spruces, Hemlocks, 
Arborvitses, Firs, or Pines, say 12 to 24 inches high; six shade trees, 
Maples, unless you prefer others, in 9-foot size; and 50 yards of Privet 
hedge. The total cost is about $10. Great latitude is allowed in the selec¬ 
tion of both shade trees and evergreens, without changing the cost figures 
a dollar either way. See chapters on planting and arrangement. 
side. You seldom see a perfectly round forest 
seedling, or mature tree. The trunk likely will be 
crooked and the head lopsided. Last, the roots 
are long, slender ropes which reach many feet in 
every direction. There are few of the fibrous feed¬ 
ing roots in a bunch near the base of the trunk, as 
with nursery trees. 
When you take such a tree up, you break three- 
r ourths of the root-system off. In its new home it 
has only one chance in three of growing at all; 
and if it does live, it never makes so nice a tree as 
though it had been given a proper chance in start¬ 
ing. It is poor economy to go to the woods for trees, 
when perfect ones can be bought for little money. 
INCREASE IN VALUE OF PROPERTY 
FROM PLANTING 
It is the experience of everyone who plants that 
fifty dollars spent for trees and hedge plants will, 
in three years, add at least three hundred dollars 
to the cash selling value of the place. Smaller 
amounts result in even greater increases in pro¬ 
portion. Your five dollars in trees becomes fifty 
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