Evergreens

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Excerpt from Evergreens: How to Grow Them Primeval America, glorious forests, lakes and rivers, protected springs and streams, the magnificent prairies, forests of the North, the trees of the Rockies, the Sierras and the Western Slope, the swift, needless and terrible destruction wrought by man. The Restoration - Aided By Nature, by the United States and State Governments and by individuals. Chapter II. - The Mission Of The Conifers. Their freshness and cheerfulness, storm in the Rockies: Intent of the tree, first beauty, next use. The Winter Foliage Garden, formal plantings, the Thurlow farm, Prof. Green's forests, topiary work in Nebraska, the Hunnewell Italian Garden, Evergreen shrubs, Berberis Repens. Chapter III. - Evergreens For Profit. Impatient American farmers, our foreign born farmers ahead, the waste of unplanted land, sandy land made productive, value of forests, of wind breaks and of individual trees, evergreen barns. Chapter IV. - Raising Evergreens From Seeds. Difference between nursery grown and collected trees, plant kinds adapted to your locality, and those that can be easily grown, Ponderosa an exception, better without a. screen, the right kind of soil, the high and low screens, trees grown from western slope seed worthless, seed from eastern slope of the Rookies desirable, raise trees from seed grown nearest to you, damping off and the remedies, making Lath sections, grafting and raising from cuttings. Chapter V. - Digging And Handling Evergreens. Little evergreens truthful "tell-tales, " difference In handling and packing, Mr. W's methods, trees must be cleated solid, case of Jack Pines, wet feet and dry tops In shipping, how to treat trees on arrival, when to plant and how, the ball of earth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.