B. Parsons & Co., at
Flushing, N.Y. There is no teaching like that of the eyes; and the
amateur who would do a bit of landscape-gardening about his own
home learns what he would like and what he can do by seeing shrubs
and trees in their various stages of growth and beauty.
I shall treat the subject of evergreens at the close of this
chapter.
As a rule, I have not much sympathy with the effort to set out
large trees in the hope of obtaining shade more quickly. The trees
have to be trimmed up and cut back so greatly that their symmetry
is often destroyed. They are also apt to be checked in their
growth so seriously by such removal that a slender sapling,
planted at the same time, overtakes and passes them. I prefer a
young tree, straight-stemmed, healthy, and typical of its species
or variety. Then we may watch its rapid natural development as we
would that of a child. Still, when large trees can be removed in
winter with a great ball of frozen earth that insures the
preservation of the fibrous roots, much time can be saved. It
should ever be remembered that prompt, rapid growth of the
transplanted tree depends on two things--plenty of small fibrous
roots, and a fertile soil to receive them. It usually happens that
the purchaser employs a local citizen to aid in putting his ground
in order.
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