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Charm in Perfection. It took this Japanese dogwood thirty years to reach its present perfection. Specimens so fine are valued at many hundreds of dollars. (Photograph: Princeton Nurseries)
After Pruning. The same maple reveals and frames the distant countryside. About two tons of low-hanging branches and excess overhead were removed, at a cost of $15. Before Pruning. This sugar maple, perfect specimen though it is, obscures the vista. IMPROVING THE VIEW White Pine—450 years White Oak, Sycamore, Ponderosa and Sugar Pines—500 years Eastern Hemlock—6oo years Western Larch—700 years In the great rain forests of our Pacific slopes grow the oldest trees on our continent—old as botanical forms as well as individually. Douglas firs with 700 annual rings are not uncommon and at least one with 1375 rings is recorded. The age of redwoods has sometimes been exaggerated. In a thirty-acre plot containing 567 redwoods, one careful investigator found only seventeen over 1000 years old. Elsewhere, he found one that was nearly 2000. |
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