SHADE TREES AND EVERGREENS 
and evergreen windbreaks are the best of all. 
Screens can be made with any of a dozen different 
things. Privet, Silver Maple and Cedars are un¬ 
excelled for quick screens. All thick trees and 
shrubs are good. Hemlock is the most beautiful, 
and the most permanent. 
That large class which goes under the name of 
Single Specimens includes almost every tree and 
plant we have. The largest Maples and Pines and 
Walnuts, the smallest shrubs and roses and Privet 
specimens—all are beautiful when standing alone. 
Some should be trimmed for best appearance; 
others should be left to grow naturally. Suit the 
trees and plants to their spaces and locations, and 
to your preferences. Wherever there is room 
forests should be planted. It may be a half-acre 
only, or a thousand acres, but it will be beautiful, 
useful and profitable. Catalpa, Walnut, Pines and 
Spruces make the best forest trees. 
For colors in leaves during fall, Maples and Mag¬ 
nolias probably are best. Evergreens, of course, 
provide contrast in summer and, what is much 
more valuable, color in winter. Peculiarities in 
coloring of both leaves and bark of other varieties 
are noted in the description, and there also you will 
see noted the blossoming habits of each kind of 
How is this for an attractive and inviting planting? The forty yards of 
untrimmed Privet hedge grew in two seasons from 3-foot plants. The 
four Evergreens are splendid White Pines, about 3 feet high when planted. 
Cost of the lot, $8. Of course they take some years to grow, but they are 
beautiful from the start. 
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