Show SHADE TREE BUTCHERY r SALT LAKE CITY Mar 241880 Editor Herald Somebody ought to protest against the cruel butchry of tbe shade trees which is indulged in3 to a greater or leas extent in parts of the city every spring The way the branches of the trees in the ttreets are sawn off short until the trees are reduced to a con dition of mot unsightly maimednesa and pitiful abbreviation is most disgusting dis-gusting Such barbaric practices ought not to prevail but should be discouraged for by prevailing they disfigure our goodly city and reflect severely upon the intelligence and good taste of the denizens In fact this shade tree butchery is perfect vandalism What are trees planted in our streets for 1 Firefly for shade in cur semitropical eum mej secondly for beauty in this arid and naturally forbidding desert thirdly for utility in modifying ihe beat and evaporation of Bummer and the cold of winter as well as to serve in some degree as windbreeki But where the treea uro annually butchered into such frightful ugliness stripped and lopped into such unsparing un-sparing nudty of branches neither of the purposes mentioned above is sub served Consequently the expense of purchase and the trouble of planting and watering are thrown away a mere waste of won y time end energy I must bo owned bat the common locust is not a very handsome shade tree But the honey locust i a slow grower when young is a goodly looking look-ing tree hen grown to a large size The hex elder is a handsome shade tree and some others could be named which are n2C6LtibIe also For my own part I would rather lava one large naturally grown hade tree in front of my lot than a score of those horrid butchere stump Instead of disfiguring all my shade trees I would prefer to take half or twothirds or hreefourtns of them clean out by the root and let the remainder grow without any pruning except euch as might prove really necessary to pro mole symmetry or to prevent accident acci-dent t passers by Thus I would lethe let-he trees grow ttose that were left and develop tnemselves freely into something 1ko what the allwise creator designed them to be A large verapreading naturally grown handsome shade tee one or two feet through the trunk is 1 thing a beauty and a joy for ever especially in the un burnt summer time Moreover only one such tree on a mans lot or in the street in front ia i a perfect picture and a matlr ot pardonable pride and h also worth a purseful of silver to a true lover of nature The shadow cf area a-rea tree in this hot and weary land as it will be ere long is a great boon and the large souled man who causes such trees to grow in our streets where nene such grsw before is a genuine benefactor SYLVAN of the public SHADE |