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Title: Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927
Subjects: Botany Gardening Forests and forestry
Publisher: New York : The Garden and forest publishing co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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doned farm, with its primevalChestnut. Sometimes it is a waterfall, and these are veryrare in central Pennsylvania, or it is a grove of trees, orextensive meadows, or bluffs like Chiques Rock, but thereis not a town or village that does not possess one spotworth reserving for public use. Fifty years from now, when parks and playgrounds willbe as much a feature of ordinary life as the water-supplyand police are at present, our present apathy in providingfor the helpless members of the community will be incom-prehensible ; but, apart from that provision, perhaps it willalso be felt that the most valuable portion of a town or vil-lage is not that possessing the most expensive architecture,but that where some elements of natural beauty may be found. Perhaps some time the original meaning of Pennsylvania(from the Welsh Perm, for headland), the head wood-lands* may be recalled, and the most distinctive feature * Hazards Annals of Pennsylvania, p. 500. March iS, 1896.) Garden and Forest. 115
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Fig. 12.—The Daupliin Chestnut.—See page 114. 1)6 Garden and Forest. (Number 421. of our Susquehanna scenery will be looked upon as some-thing- besides an obstacle in the way of railway enterprise,and receive full appreciation of its hygienic and aesthetic value. TUT t n u Ann Arbor, Mich. ■<«• E. EOCH. Cultural Department. Hardy Shrubs for Winter Flowering in theGreenhouse. WHERE large quantities and a variety of flowers are needed,either for cutting or greenhouse decoration, many of theearly-flowering shrubs are invaluable. But to flower thesesuccessfully, most of them need to be specially prepared forthe purpose. We lift ours from the borders in the springprevious, selecting healthy, shapely specimens, and put themin pots or neat tubs. Any long or straggling roots are cutback, so that a ball of good fibrous roots may be made. Thepots should then be plunged in ashes or other light material toprotect them from the hot, drying winds of summer. Theshrubs must not be shaded,

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