Live Oak        |100 ft.|Not hardy in the North.  Grows south of
|       | Virginia.  Beautiful evergreen oak.  Likes
|       | moist soil.

Locust          |80ft.  |Fragrant flowers in May and June.  Rapid
|       | grower.  Seeds in pods.  Thorny bark.

Lombardy Poplar |90ft.  |Quick grower.  Stiff, straight and tall.
|       | Dignified but melancholy tree.  Fine for
|       | pathway effect.

Norway Maple    |100 ft.|Tall, well rounded tree.  Yellow foliage in
|       | the fall.

Pin Oak         |100 ft.|Fastest grower among oaks.  You cannot
|       | grow plants under it.

Red Maple       |100 ft.|Earliest flowering maple.  Good for lowlands.
|       | Bright red foliage in the fall.

Sugar Maple     |100 ft.|Moist soil.  Bright foliage in the fall.  Best
|       | street tree among maples.

Horse Chestnut  |60 ft. |Fine white flowers in June.  Attractive buds
|       | and leaves.  Foliage grows very dense.
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XIII

HOW BOYS AND GIRLS CAN MAKE MONEY FROM THEIR GARDENS

Naturally, we are all interested in ways and means of earning money.  It is not a bad thing at all for a boy or girl to wish to turn work into cash.  Not always is it possible for one to find a market next door for products.  No, it is rarely as easy a matter as that.  One has to really work a bit.

“Let me tell you one boy’s story.  This lad, let us call him Newton, had a nice vegetable and flower garden.  He had worked so hard over it, it did seem to him as if he ought to be able to sell some of his produce.  One day he loaded a little cart with vegetables and went down the street to a corner market.  I imagine he went in a half-hearted sort of way.  The market-man was busy and he spoke a bit roughly to the boy.  But Newton went on to another store.  He received the same sort of treatment there.  This time he gave up discouraged and went home.  His mother was not discouraged.  She showed him how he should have made his vegetables, wagon and all, look more attractive.

“So Newton went to work again.  He scrubbed his radishes and new carrots until they shone.  He bunched them up into neat little bundles.  Then the lettuce came in for its washing and cleaning.  Thus he treated all the vegetables.  Then he printed a sign ‘Fresh Vegetables For Sale’ and started off again.  This time he went to the largest hotel in the little city in which he lived.  There he was sent to the cook.  This big, good-natured fellow said that he would look at his stuff.  ’Looks good to me,’ said the cook, ‘it really looks like home-grown things,’ Straightway he bought a good part of what Newton had and there and then made arrangements for daily deliveries of certain vegetables.