Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1910 — Trees from the Woods. [ARTICLE]

Trees from the Woods.

February is an excellent month for transplanting flowering trees and shrubs from the woods into the home grounds, says the Garden Magazine, especially if the January thaw has bared the ground and the air thrills with the promise of spring. The trees are dormant, their roots packed tight in frozen earth. It is harder digging, but you get a better ball of roots.

Certain flowering trees among our native trees are as beautiful as any exotics obtainable from a nurseryman, in fact, all the best ones are sold by nurserymen. Every garden needs a flowering dogwood, with its snow of white blossoms in spring. It should be planted in the border of an open lawn, but overtopped behind by large trees, because It has no foilage of its

own at flowering time to make a background for the blossoms. The price of sucn a beautiful tree is careful transplanting and patience with its slow growth.