One other thing the bulldozer can do for you before it departs: clear a strip of ground for your tree nursery. Put it in a sheltered spot, below a slope, and don't let them scrape away all the topsoil. In the course of events you may be wanting replacement trees or added starters for empty spots. There is no better time or place to collect and start some specimens than right on your own ground, to which your species are already accustomed. Your woods will be full of sprouts and switches which can be moved with little more effort than it takes to destroy them. The rudiments of transplanting are described in Chapter VIII. Here it is simply suggested that, while an unkempt tract is being tailored, future additions to its wardrobe can be provided for on the spot, to avoid expensive trips later to commercial tree farms.

Before passing on to the physiology, care, and culture of trees, let new home owners introduce themselves to the great Tree family through some of the following books:

Pocket Field Guide to Trees, William Carey Grimm (The Stackpole Co.); Handbook of the Trees, Romeyn Beck Hough (The Macmillan Co.); Introduction to Trees, John Kieran (Doubleday & Co.); Our Trees: How to Know Them, Arthur I. Emerson and Clarence M. Weed (J. B. Lippincott Co.); A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America and A Natural History of Western Trees, Donald Culross Peattie, ed. (Houghton Mifflin Co.); Illustrated Manual of Pacific Coast Trees, Howard E. McMinn and Evelyn Maino (University of California Press); Trees and Shrubs of the Southwestern Deserts, L. D. Benson and R. A. Darrow (University of New Mexico Press).