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Trees are fascinating
PLANTS By Dan Carlson Michiana Master Gardener
During the summers of my early teen years, my mother would take me to the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Ill., southwest of Chicago. She would drop me off in the morning with a sack lunch at the far east end and I would spend the rest of the day hiking, exploring and learning about trees, shrubs and wildlife. My mother would pick me up at the west end of the arboretum in time to get home for dinner. Occasionally, one of my fellow Boy Scouts or another friend would join me on my trek. Later in life I continued to enjoy trees. I helped Boy Scouts with tree identification. My wife and I built our first home on a wooded lot. When we built our second home on what used to be a potato field, we planted almost 500 trees on our property.
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