“JUNIOR TREES” 
“Junior Trees” are real trees which 
have not grown up, but are on their way. 
They are mostly 18 inches to 24 inches tall; 
some are 12 inches to 18 inches and a few 
kinds are 9 inches to 12 inches. All are 
matured enough to have a well developed 
root system and with proper planting and 
care, they should grow to be normal trees 
of their kind and character. 
“Junior Trees” are starting their life 
journey to ‘‘Treehood”’ and many are the 
adventures and struggles ahead of them. 
They are “Children trees’, so to speak, and 
their development of their own tree-type is 
fascinating as it becomes more and more 
outstanding from one maturing season to 
another. “Junior Trees” show their char- 
acter-forming process very clearly, while in 
matured (senior) trees it has already been 
established. This maturing or adolescent 
period has generally been spent in an ordin- 
ary nursery, growing in nursery rows and 
few folks appreciate the most interesting 
period in the development of the tree. 
Hence, this plan has been developed so that 
children, youth and grown folks can grow 
up with “Junior Trees’ in the same sort of 
way we grow up with our growing babies 
and children and intimately watch and ob- 
serve the developing processes. 
Trees are of first importance and they 
