The Republican journal., 1869-05-27
VOLUME 80.

elsewhere the soul-food for which they yearn.
As n vast means of happiness, them and Of profit,
in AL ho material and spiritual aspects Of life, we
would say adorn and make glad The homestead,
whether If he elegant or humble by setting olt suit
able shade this very spring. to be bless
mo TO You and to Your descendants; to add . per
cent. to it, market value if You want TO sell.
But there is great deal both in the choice Cf
,hrubbery and the way of doing the thing.
As 10 kinds, no part Of the world furnishes no
bier and in greater varieties than our grand forests
OF Minnie The standard thing i tho majestic elm
the oak and rock maple are noble trees. but their
very excellence make them too slow growers. The
horse-clesnut, with its large and handsome leaves.
and it, elegant flowers. is fine tree, but owing TO
is scarcity is not for the million The beech the
several varieties of birch. unless 100 suggestive Of
The Woes Of boyhood, and the white maple. which
gives such rich colorng TO autumnal scenery all
are cheap and excellent. But the tree. we think,
one seldom seen out Of it. native forests. handsome,
i rapid grower, hardy large and elegant foliage Is
the Linden. 1t is poetic tree also: for we never
see one without instructive y repeating the famous
poem of Campbell, beginning
| :" On Linden when the sun was low"
hut with most persons the poetry may ail vanish on
on learning that the linden is nothing but the bass
wood. Among all the trees we have planted. this
i, the tVorito For smaller trees. the mountain ash.
aud Tie ~irnac. With their rich scarlet fruit are
worthy Il place amoug their nobler brethren.
| This list relates only to decduous trees, those
which shed their leaves every fall and renew them
every spring. These, for half The YEAR are deSti-
tute OF foliage aud Of beauty. Hence, we think.
| high among ornamental trees is that class with
many varieties Yielding. its name, evergreen. in
ticAte>. perpetual yertlure ana beauty; the pine,
! spruce, hemovk. fiji cedar, &c. If we could have
but one ire gladden. the eye 1T al times, ii should
b. the fragrant tr. Every lawn and Ill places
should have good proportion OF these valiou, ever
greens, the fir and the cedar taking the lead.
/ There is Il trouble about this evergreen tribe. the
reason. perhaps. they little cultyatca; their
small roots being tender that, unless the trees
are taken up With great dirt and all, they Will
seldom live. let with thi, care they survive trans
planting as well as an elm OF an apple tree. Some
year. ago we set upon our grounds III Sear>port.
here they may be seen IN full yigOr. about 200
evergreen trces-fir spruce and CEDAR and not over
half dozen out of the whole died The proper way
is this: Some damp day from the first to the mid
die OF Tuue. 90 into some pasture land where the
tree, stand out some distance from one another
never Get from the forest; shake The tree; If il
loose III the soil, with an iron bar loosen
side u,t 50 far ont as the longest limbs extend
when with some pryng. and pulling to the opposite
side. it Will usually cleNYe OF roots and soil toge
er; this, if carefully set out and well watched, will
| ~taii good chance to live. even il quite large.
But if the soil drops OFF to any considerable extent.
( in taking up i'll moving. throw ii away and Try
/ Till you get one 4, u>t named; for without these
carthod roots Il broom handle will GROW as well.
In selecting trees. th:t they are thrifty and
smart growers: a green, rank look, and good space
between each circle of brtnrlles--!his latter show
ing it, yearly @rowth-are The true marks of the
right ~0rt.
We have on hand many inquiries rs 10 the proper
way of cuitNatm@ the cedar in the hedge. and in the
su%ar-o;t FORM which Shall be duly answered in
an article soon.
How shall trees be placed -o 4, to give them their
| highest effect? No safer rule than to follow nature
On natural landscape You see what a variety Of
trees and Of shrubbcry in cumps here. and open
y>ta> there, such was the delight of your child
hood and youth; initiate them. In this natural an
| ran@emcn you not much form and air of stiff
ness and straight line among trees nature seems
to ahhol-likr the lr>hman who said he could put
two trees into straight line easy enough, but
dNl bit could he get three into it. so, except
dong fences, streets &C., avoid formal rows of
trees: bu arrange them if they came there by ac-
cident and different sorts to blend colorS. If
any unsightly object requires obseurng, these. ac-
rordng 10 its nature, trees shrubs or vines should
be planted. If some portion Of the grounds are
high. some low, the former should be nculrlized by
a low form of >hrubbery, and the latter bv tail
growing trees; just long ladies Of taste know so
well how 10 shorten in effect the form by flounccs
and having the stripes go around. and short ones
seem to lengthcn under the magic of a high toilet
| and stripes 20 up and down,