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Title: Documentary journal of Indiana 1905
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Indiana. General Assembly
Subjects: Indiana--Politics and government--Sources
Publisher: Indianapolis : Wm. B. Burford, contractor for state printing and binding, 1906
Contributing Library: Indiana State Library, Indiana Memory Program
Digitizing Sponsor: Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act; Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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No. 9. Natural shape of poplar. Compare No. 8. outlines of the tree the very antithesis of the one shown in the cutreferred to. If tree owners insist upon a certain shape or if certain shapedmasses of foliage are desired for any special purpose, trees shouldbe planted which will naturally assume that shape. Get away fromthe old idea of planting any sort of tree and then trimming it to 54 Fifth Anistual Report the form desired. Dont try to make a poplar look like a horsechestnut or a weeping willow like an oak. JSTorway maples, linden,white ash, and other trees to he treated in a separate list, all growa compact, round head, and if they fulfill your idea of tree beauty.
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No. 7. A red maple in an old German garden. Notice the results of the per-sistent pruning, which the old gardener thought necessary. plant one of them, rather than butcher some tall growing tree thatdoes not come up to your expectations. Too often people plant trees unthinkingly, and with no eye forthe future—then if the results are not satisfactory the trees get theblame and the trimming. Another class of tree butchering is illustrated in cut No. 10, and State Board of Forestry. 55 it is hard to conjecture what insane motives prompted snch awfulwork. This sort of trimming (if it may be called by so mild aname) can have but one result—the trees inevitably die. And yetthis species of imbecility is rampant throughout the country today,as cuts ISTos. 11, 12 and 13 will in some measure show. Such workis more than a demonstration of idiocy, it is an offense against the

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