They will thrive just as well on the acre if
properly removed. In a sense they bring the forest with them, and
open vistas at our door deep into the heart of Nature. The tree is
not only a thing of beauty in itself, but it represents to the
fancy all its wild haunts the world over.
In gratifying our taste for native trees we need not confine
ourselves to those indigenous to our own locality. From the
nurseries we can obtain specimens that beautify other regions of
our broad land; as, for instance, the Kentucky yellow-wood, the
papaw, the Judas-tree, and, in the latitude of New Jersey and
southward, the holly.
In many instances the purchaser of the acre may find a lasting
pleasure in developing a specialty. He may desire to gather about
him all the drooping or weeping trees that will grow in his
latitude, or he may choose to turn his acre largely into a nut-
orchard, and delight his children with a harvest which they will
gather with all the zest of the frisky red squirrel. If one could
succeed in obtaining a bearing tree of Hale's paper-shell hickory-
nut, he would have a prize indeed. Increasing attention is given
to the growing of nut-trees in our large nurseries, and there
would be no difficulty in obtaining a supply.
In passing from this subject of choice in deciduous trees and
shrubs, I would suggest, in addition to visits to woods and copse,
to the well-ornamented places of men who have long gratified a
fine taste in this respect, that the reader also make time to see
occasionally a nursery like that of S.
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