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Manual of GardeningTREES FOR LAWNS AND STREETSA single tree may give character to an entire home property; and a place of any size that does not have at least one good tree usually lacks any dominating landscape note. Likewise, a street that is devoid of good trees cannot be the best residential section; and a park that lacks well-grown trees is either immature or barren. Although the list of good and hardy lawn and street trees is rather extensive, the number of kinds generally planted and recognized is small. Since most home places can have but few trees, and since they require so many years to mature, it is natural that the home-maker should hesitate about experimenting, or trying kinds that he does not himself know. So the home-maker in the North plants maples, elms, and a white birch, and in the South a magnolia and China-berry. Yet there are numbers of trees as useful as these, the planting of which might give our premises and streets a much richer expression. It is much to be desired that some of the trees with "strong" and rugged characters be introduced into the larger grounds; such, for example, as the hickories and oaks. These may often transplant with difficulty, but the effort to secure them is worth the expenditure. Good trees of oaks, and others supposed to be difficult to transplant, may now be had of the leading nurserymen. The pin oak _(Quercus palustris_) is one of the best street trees and is now largely planted. It is at least possible to introduce a variety of trees into a city or village, by devoting one street or a series of blocks to a single kind of tree,--one street being known by its lindens, one by its plane-trees, Next Page |
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