What method have you found to be most effective for installing trees on a layout?
Most of my trees have trunks made of wood with flat bottoms.
I will be installing them into homasote and into molded paper mache hills/terrain.
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Hot glue.
Ditto on the hot glue.
I cut the trunk off flush, drill a hole in the layout, and glue it in. If the trunk is too short, I drill a small hole in trunk and a dowel of the right length and use a wire in the holes to add the dowel and lengthen the turnk, then insert it in the hole.
Putting trees in gets boring in ahurry, too. It is simply amazing how you can have so many trees and it does not look like nearly enough. There are about 400 trees in this end of the layout (about half is shown here) and it really needs about couple of hundred to look like a real forest.
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Thanks for the advice gents!
Drill a hole, put glue in it, plant tree.
I just like to drill hole and use no glue. With no glue the tree can be moved. If the hole is to large, I will at green tissue paper to the hole to help hold the tree or add green or brown Acrylic Paint to fill in the hole. Thin coat of paint only, because if paint is to thick, it will be like glue.
If needed add some fertilizer & water. (Joke) 
I used an awl and punched a hole in the homosote, put Elmer's glue in the hole and then put the trunk into the hole. Real easy to do.
