Favorite Tree: CREATE A shady seating area under a favorite tree with a raised planter constructed from interlocking timber logs. These can be obtained in easy-to-assemble kit form. Attractive and practical, this wooden tree seat can be assembled in just five minutes, without the need for any tools. When filled with soil, the same design can serve as a conventional planter which incorporates seating areas round the trunk of the tree.
The logs, which are preservative-treated to ward off rot, have notched edges which interlock to form the walls of the tree seat and make the structure rigid. No other fixing is necessary.
Among good shade trees are:—sugar maple; red maple, Pin oak, moraine locust, sweetgum, ginkgo, green ash, Chinese scholar tree, yellowood, black tupelo (sourgum), willow oak, laurel oak, south¬ern magnolia, camphor tree, and Amur cork tree. Kinds to avoid, although special circumstances may make planting any of them desirable, are poplars, willows, tree of heaven, box elder and Siberian elm.See Also Planted Tree:Newly planted trees will need staking until they have grown enough roots to support themselves. Other garden plants produce large heavy blooms and therefore need constant support.
Trees Dig the planting hole and check that it is large enough for the tree's roots. Then knock a stake into the soil until one-third of its length is buried. The stake should be either a length of 2 x 2in wood, treated with a preservative other than creosote, or a larch pole similarly protected. Position the stake to windward of the tree. The top should be just below the lowest branch.
With the stake firmly in place, plant the tree. Then fix one tree tie 2in from the top of the stake and another I2in above soil level. Check the ties regularly and loosen them as necessary.
Newly planted trees will need staking until they have grown enough roots to support themselves. Other garden plants produce large heavy blooms and therefore need constant support.
Trees Dig the planting hole and check that it is large enough for the tree's roots. Then knock a stake into the soil until one-third of its length is buried. The stake should be either a length of 2 x 2in wood, treated with a preservative other than creosote, or a larch pole similarly protected. Position the stake to windward of the tree. The top should be just below the lowest branch.
With the stake firmly in place, plant the tree. Then fix one tree tie 2in from the top of the stake and another I2in above soil level. Check the ties regularly and loosen them as necessary.
On The Other Hand See Shade Tree With Thought:Choose a shade tree with thought toward ultimate size. Giant types such as American Elm, European Beech and White Oak, are likely to become too large for modern, low-built homes, especially those on small lots. Before you buy, familiarize yourself with the kind of tree you have in mind in its middle-aged or mature condition. Usually you may inspect examples in botanic gar¬dens, parks, old private estates, cemetries and suchlike places and at some nurseries. In any case don't buy only on the basis of what the young tree looks like. You might just as well select a puppy as a pet with¬out any idea of its ultimate size or habits.
The ground sloths were once classified as a separate group from the two living tree sloths, but it is now thought that each of the tree sloths represents a line of previously ground-dwelling sloths. The complex adaptive characteristics of the feet have led to a theory that sloths were tree-dwellers in their very early history in South America, later be¬came ground-dwelling forms, and then returned to the trees. It is also possible that there have always been tree-dwelling forms.
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