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Title: The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Charles H. Marot
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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, if they did not generally live there would not bethe trade there is in them. But few have the moneyfor large trees,âand often they are not to be hadfor any money,âour directions are, of course, onlyfor those who have. Small trees must ever be thetrees for the masses. But the same rules holdgood. A tree, to live, should have a hardy, vig-orous constitution. There is much more chancefor a vigorous healthy tree, poorly dug, and withpoor roots, than for a badly grown tree with all theroots it ever had. Sometimes the fact that a treehas a splendid mass of fibrous roots is against suc-cess in planting. It is almost impossible, withoutcare, to get the earth in between them. Nothingis more surprising to many people to have suchtrees die,âbut deaths among them are extremelycommon, particularly among dense fibrous rootedHemlock and Norway spruces. And they are es-pecially liable to die if they are heavily wateredafter planting, as the little earth remaining in 1887.1 AND HORTICULTURIST.
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am^ng the fibres is washed out,and nothing remains to sustainthe roots. Trees are too often set on smallplaces, when shrubs and vineswould be more desirable. Thesetake less room and give morevarietyâand, speaking of vinesthere are few things that are moreattractive than a regular vine gar-den, just as we sometimes have aspecial garden of roses, rhodo-dendrons or other things. Theposts, pillars or frames should beof galvanized wiresâand for vari-ety, some vines may grow overrocks or roots. Over dwelling orother houses, vines should alwaysbe trained. Some few things willadhere of themselves to the walls,but galvanized wire frames are byfar the best. A vine-coveredbuilding is usually in the best styleof architecture, and everybody atonce admires it. One of the pret-tiest houses on the Hudson isRobert Colgates residence, atRiverdale. We give front and backviews of itâone well covered withvines, the other has not yet becomewholly covered. The gardensand grounds are beautifully keptâ

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