HARRISON’S NURSERIES, BERLIN, MD. 
trees. Shrubs and roses, of course, are the chief 
source of flowers and fragrance. Birds nest in any 
thick trees, but for protection against cold, or 
from hawks, etc., they prefer evergreens. 
To secure beauty of landscape all you need is 
properly to arrange tall and low trees, dark and 
light ones, shade and evergreen trees, and those 
that differ in form. If you like to work with your 
trees, plant those that need a good deal of trimming 
and cultivation; if you think they should get along 
without much attention, choose those that grow 
naturally as you want them to be. 
HOW TO PLANT 
First of all, get good trees. That means trees 
with thousands of fine, fibrous, roots close to their 
crowns; trees with straight trunks of the right 
height, and, if by nature they should have limbs 
when you get them, they should be developed 
evenly on all sides, so the future heads will be 
round and symmetrical; trees full of vitality and 
vigor, and free from disease, and not stunted. 
Those fine roots are produced only by repeated 
transplantings or root-prunings. If trees are 
allowed to grow where the seeds come up, they will 
develop long roots that must be broken when the 
trees are dug for moving to your place. This 
leaves them with small feeding and anchoring 
facilities,. and they suffer such a shock that it 
usually kills them; or, if they do live, they require 
several years to recover. But when they have 
plenty of fine roots they are able to take right hold 
in their new location. Such trees seldom die. 
On the kind of care your trees receive in the nur¬ 
sery depends the grade of trees you will have when 
they grow up, and, to a certain extent, how fast 
they will grow. The tender trunks of the little 
trees must be kept growing straight and true, 
from the very seed. When wrong limbs start they 
must be rubbed off. If branches are allowed to 
grow in wrong places or directions, the trees fail 
develop in places and directions where growth 
is needed. So you see that if trees are to develop 
into the symmetrical outline which we all admire 
so much, they must receive the most careful atten¬ 
tion every week during their half dozen years or 
so in the nursery. If they are neglected, you cannot 
tell it by their looks when you buy them to plant, 
but it comes out three or four years later when 
your expectations of fine trees are disappointed by 
the development of lopsided or scraggy specimens. 
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