Show proper planting of shade trees the beauty of a shade tree depends upon its normal and symmetrical growth in order to insure this before planting cut off the ends of nil broken or mutilated roots remove all side brandies branches save upon evergreens evergreen ever greens et so that a straight talk stalk alone remains dig holes at least two feet in diameter nud and one foot drep deep in good soil and malo make them four feet across aaros in poor soil the sides of holes should he be perpendicular and the bottom flat creak break up soil in the bottom of the hole to the lite depth of the length ot of a spade sp ide blade place two to or three inches of tine fine top lop soil tree free from soils sods or other decomposing in organic mutter matter in the bottom of the hole on top of this place the roots of the tree spread them ns as evenly as possible over the bottom of the hole and cover with two or three inches of tine fine top soil as before tramp firmly with ith the feet and fill the hole with good earth leaving the surface loose and a little higher than the surface of the surrounding soil soft when the work of planting Is completed complete the tree should stand about two inches deeper than it stood in the nursery nur |