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Show WHAT BHADE TREES TO FLA NT. There iB a great satisfaction in knowing what selection ol shade-tree?) these who are competent to judgw would make for road or lawn planting. plant-ing. Just such information is now before tbe public, and it will prove of very great value to those who intend to beautify their road aides or private grounds. The park commission of Washington, D. 0., composed of three men of high standing in horticultural circles, have planted miles of street treet?, numbering about 40,000. The bulk of Lhee are made herewith in1 the order in which the commission valued them for the purpose: White, maple, American linden, American elm, scarlet maple, buxeldr, sugar maple, American white ash, English sycamore, button ball, tulip tree, hooey locust, Norway maple. This is an excellent assortment lu Bclact from fur road tido planting. Each variety here named when lu:l grown assumes handsume pmpo.liuim, and most of them have brtlliaut and attractive foliage in the full. Iu planting shado-treea along the roadside, road-side, especially in a clay country, they should be Bet at least filty feet apart, fur if closer there will be too much shade, and bad, wet roads in spring are sure to follow. This close planting plant-ing should also be Btrenuously avoided in decorntiug private grouudii. Any system that excludes the free access of sun and air from the dwelling-house dwelling-house is pernicious. Go wherever one may he will find this faulty Bystem ol close planting iu vogue, and in eight cases out ot ten there are two trees or shrubs on a Bpace where one would have been enough. The plea for this is a desire for immediate t fleet. The remedy is to cut down iu time every other tree. This lust is seldom, if ever, carried out. P. T. Q. in Bcrib-ner Bcrib-ner for April. |