ourselves to those indigenous to our own locality. From the
nurseries we can obtain specimens that beautify other regions of
our broad land; as, for instance, the Kentucky yellow-wood, the
papaw, the Judas-tree, and, in the latitude of New Jersey and
southward, the holly.

In many instances the purchaser of the acre may find a lasting
pleasure in developing a specialty. He may desire to gather about
him all the drooping or weeping trees that will grow in his
latitude, or he may choose to turn his acre largely into a nut-
orchard, and delight his children with a harvest which they will
gather with all the zest of the frisky red squirrel. If one could
succeed in obtaining a bearing tree of Hale's paper-shell hickory-
nut, he would have a prize indeed. Increasing attention is given
to the growing of nut-trees in our large nurseries, and there
would be no difficulty in obtaining a supply.

In passing from this subject of choice in deciduous trees and
shrubs, I would suggest, in addition to visits to woods and copse,
to the well-ornamented places of men who have long gratified a
fine taste in this respect, that the reader also make time to see
occasionally a nursery like that of S.B. Parsons & Co., at
Flushing, N.Y. There is no teaching like that of the eyes; and the
amateur who would do a bit of landscape-gardening about his own
home learns what he would like and what he can do by seeing shrubs
and trees in their various stages of growth and beauty.

I shall treat the subject of evergreens at the close of this
chapter.