. American forestry. Forests and forestry. m 6 MADE BY DREDGING A SWAMPY BOTTOM. living green Avails or a tangle of gray twigs in winter. Any strikingly beauti- ful tree that does not grow over-large may be used in the same way—silver pine, scarlet oak, purple beach, green ash, ginko, sassafras, dogwood; and araucaria and deodar if you live south of the 40th parallel. Sink them well into the edge of the thicket so as to ap- pear part of it. In the second method of treatment you will get results by judicious cutting and planting. You have many fine colors available on your palette. If y
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. m 6 MADE BY DREDGING A SWAMPY BOTTOM. living green Avails or a tangle of gray twigs in winter. Any strikingly beauti- ful tree that does not grow over-large may be used in the same way—silver pine, scarlet oak, purple beach, green ash, ginko, sassafras, dogwood; and araucaria and deodar if you live south of the 40th parallel. Sink them well into the edge of the thicket so as to ap- pear part of it. In the second method of treatment you will get results by judicious cutting and planting. You have many fine colors available on your palette. If you live anywhere in the range of gray birch—Atlantic Coast west to Ohio and south to \'irginia—you have a wonder- ful tree to work with. With its slender white trunks and its feathery, quaking foliage it is a strikingly interesting ob- ject, and a very few of them will tone up any thicket. They will grow any- where, swamp or sand barren, and there really seems no excuse for their not oc- curring naturally farther West. Another good thicket color is the judas tree, circis canadensis. In the early spring its abundant pink flowers are out almost as soon as the red maples and its handsome green leaves help out the feathery birch foliage. You can get it at any nursery. Thinning out is always good and salu- tatory in the thicket. In doing so, spare the sour gums, as its deep reds in the autumn are wonderful and the blue- black berries are a feast for robins, cedarljirds and flickers ! Save the flow- ering dogwoods for their white blooms in the spring and red berries in the fall; and favor the wild cherries for their fragrant blossoms and handsome fruit. The trees to go will undoubtedly be black jack, scrub oak, yellow maple, thorn and alder. If there is a mature sweet gum anywhere near, there will surely be several young ones in the thicket. Be on the lookout for them, and clear away the brush about Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images tha
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