Inside Out Library · Explore

American homes and gardens (1905)

New York, Munn and Co · leaf 118

An illustration from American homes and gardens, 1905, leaf 118
notretain moisture. There is but one remedy for trees sufferingfor moisture. Dig out the sod two inches deep with an areaof four feet, and in this space lay a stratum of coarse gravel.Gravel provides the best substitute for the leaves that are sobeneficial to forest trees. During the months of July… … The Result of an Abundance of Water private lawns and in public groves dying of thirst and thepasser-by can see no cause of the dwarfed, wilted condition.The tree with an ample supply of water will gro^ symmet-rically, and be subject to few diseases. Not a great distance from the white oak is a…

Architecture, Domestic · Landscape gardening

Internet Archive · Biodiversity Heritage Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from American homes and gardens

More like this