Excerpt from Forestry Pamphlets, Vol. 14: Silviculture The rural ideal today of making the country a better place m which to live begins with the improvement of the interior conveniences of the house and the exterior surroundings of the home. The attachments that are formed for the home are frequently associated with the trees, shrubs and flowers that surround it. A farm house standing out in its nakedness to the severest storms of winter and the torrid heat of summer with no trees to shelter it or shrubs to clothe it, is hardly conducive to the formation of loving thoughts and tender memories. From such farms the young folks migrate to the cities and the old folks to the towns. If the farm is worth farming, then the grounds about the house are worth developing into a pleasing home grounds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.