Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1917 — Native Trees Are Desirable. [ARTICLE]

Native Trees Are Desirable.

Many people have the decidedly mistaken idea that the only trees worth buying and setting out are the more or less expensive shrubs or evergreens which are not native to most sections of the country. The idea of paying out good money for a pine or a birch or a maple seems to go against the grain. As a matter of fact there are many places where such trees are to be had for the trouble of digging them np and transplanting them, but even this is considered too high a price. And yet for many purposes pines and maples are as good trees as can be had, and there is nothing listed in the catalogue more beautiful and graceful than a well cared-for group of white birches.