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trees towns in towns and cities often become too large for the area in which they were planted. Also, where roads are widened, overhanging branches may obstruct traffic. If this happens, branches are often cut back to the trunk, encouraging the growth of long stems that cluster around the top of the trunk. The need for pollarding can be avoided by selecting trees towns that will not intrude on neighboring buildings, roads or gardens. Always select a species and variety to suit the position.

In a rustic garden the trees towns should be fruit trees towns wherever possible, or at least blossom trees towns of some kind. Apples, pears, plums, and cherries will all help to create the right atmosphere, as will nut trees towns such as hazel or almond. If there is space for a large tree, a Walnut might do.

One finds, tucked obscurely into remote valleys, or clambering steep liillsides or clinging to lake edges, all sorts of special villages: Maria-Worth, a venerable Marian community on a peninsula in the Worthersee; bsam, where Jakob Stainer tapped the trees towns for violin wood; Ober-Surgl, loftiest parish village in all Europe; Hallstatt, a lake village where tide Celts made their homes in the prehistoric Hallstatt Age and where low long boats, propelled like gondolas, are the chief means of transpor-:ation. One finds monkish communities like Admont, whose glory is the ibrary of its Benedictine Abbey; cultural towns like St. Wolfgang, with )riceless art treasures in wood carving; pilgrim towns like Heiligenblut md Mariazell; picture-book towns like Kitzbiihel and St.