Rows of Augustine Ascending Elms in one of the 
Association’s Nurseries. 
WHAT A TREE TAKES 
All these advantages a tree gives. What does 
it take from us? We have seen that a tree re- 
quires three things: water, soil salts, and sun- 
light. It requires nothing else. And all these 
present under all but very unusual conditions, 
and a tree has all the necessary mechanisms to 
collect and use them. 
After the initial expense and effort of purchas- 
ing and planting a tree, usually no further ex- 
pense or effort is required. The tree searches out 
its own water and salts without our help. And 
it gets its energy for the manufacture of food for 
its growth and life not from man but from the 
sun. It pushes out its branches and leaves toward 
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