. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. CHAPTER IV Trees and Shrubs Same place as the one shown below, but with the shru
. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. CHAPTER IV Trees and Shrubs Same place as the one shown below, but with the shrubs removed TREES THERE is nothing more exalting than a great tree, and as Prof. Bristow Adams suggests: ' 'The wonderful thing about the tree is that it keeps growing year after year and thus takes its place as the oldest living ; As such we should revere it as a choice heritage, or if we find no trees growing on our land we should plant them for our posterity. A story indelible in the mind of the writer is that of a man called "Johnny Appleseed," who was very fond of Apples, and eating them as he walked he sowed the seed by the wayside. Years later people gathered the fruit of his pleasant labor. His life stands a great lesson in this day of needed reforesting of our devastated and ill-cared- for woodlands. Some of us can never plant a forest, but we can start the growth of several trees that may become perfect. Not only should we pleint trees, but we should care for them properly, prune and spray them intelligently. Because we may be neglectful one year, an Elm which has grown for a hundred years may be destroyed by the Ehn beetle. We owe it to the community to try to save it. Do not allow the removal of trees by telephone com- panies or when excavating, without careful thought. Trees for Shade and Shelter Upon the Lawn. The trees each of us would choose for our lawn decoration would most probably be those for which we have a personal liking. From childho
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