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FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated 
Vol. XXVI, 
HATBORO, PENNA., FEBRUARY 1918 
No. 2 
LAWN SPECIMENS 
A SUBURBAN residence or country house standing 
alone, without a tree near it, looks unfinished and 
hare. It matters little how beautiful the design 
or how well built, trees are needed to relieve its bareness 
or enhance its beauty and from this point of view, any 
tree is better than none, but it is just as true too many 
trees on a lawn are as bad or worse than none. 
The exception, of course, is the house built in the woods. 
The position of a tree in relation to the house is a very 
important matter, especially on a small lawn. The very 
common practice of planting a Norway Maple or other 
dense common tree right in front of the house has little 
to commend it. While they are small, perhaps they are 
not so bad, but as soon as they get to any size, they hide 
the house, kill the grass underneath, and preclude any 
attempt to grow flowers or other attractive plants along 
the front of the house, usually just where they are 
needed. 
When a tree is placed near the house it should be with 
a definite purpose, for shade, to soften the lines, or to 
A superb specimen of the Weeping Beech {Fagus sylvatica pendula). All of the Beeches make fine trees for the lawn 
