Show How and ad Where to Plant Sh Shade T Trees fees By GRANT GILL PETERSEN Bountiful City Planner With spring and Arbor Day Dar coming some ome of us are going to want to plant some trees In fuel fact many more of or us should plant trees Some of our streets and home grounds are arc bare and should be dressed up and decorated with some good substantial sub sub- tree Iree plantings However However however How How- ever we must plant the proper types of trees in the proper lo location location lo- lo cation in order to get full Cull enjoyment enjoyment en en- and save ourselves from the troubles that co come cone e from Irom improper planting Some of the best trees for Cor our regular fill fifty foot Cool streets would be Norway Maples Maples Linden Ginkgo Gink Gink- go Pagoda Japanese-Pagoda and several several several sev sev- eral species of the Ash These trees are arc not too loo large to be In m residential a l as yet et they can bu be hea headed ed high enough that street equipment can cnn work workaround workaround workaround around them without damage to either cither the tree tr e or the equip equip equip- ment Also the root systems of or these trees dont don't Invade the sewers and crack sidewalks as do the roots roots' of the Poplars Willows Elms Silver Maple and the larger trees In small areas adjacent to buildings or between houses we can plant the smaller trees such as Flowering Crabapples Flowering Peach several of the Hawthorns Flowering Plums and the tree If these trees are ure planted in the parking strip they stand a chance of or being damaged by bythe bythe bythe the street equipment since they are arc loo too small to lo be headed high enough to allow the equipment to work near them thein th m. m i In l placing our trees we should also avoid planting under un un- under der del power lines It takes a tree only a a few fe years to get high enough to interfere with the wires When this happens the power company compan has to eliminate eliminate nate the trouble so they give the tree a butch haircut and when trees are butchered they cease to be beautiful and become ugly Therefore If Il we locate our trees proper properly we can stay on good terms with the power companies and also have better looking lookin trees Usually it is more practical to plant our trees five or six feet Ceet behind the sidewalk on our own property rather than on the narrow parking strip in front of or the he walk By Dy doing this we keep the trees in a more protected place and keep the shade on our lawns where we can cnn use it Also we can get the tree far enough fr from m the walk that the roots routs wont won't crack the concrete On our wider streets where we have a parking parking park park- ing strip of six sL feet or more then it could b be practical to plant trees between the walk and the curb Proper placing of trees c can n also do a great deal in helpIng helpIng helping help- help Ing to show off ou our houses For instance if we plant the trees in front and toward the sides I of our house the trees will help to emphasize the beauty of oC the building but if we plant too heavily in front we may hide the house from Crom view from the street streel Of or course some people may want to subdue the view of oC their house from the street and if this is the thc case and the parking strip is wide enough then a planting of trees in tho parking s trip strip will serve very well People who have corner loU lots should make sure that an any trees tree planted near the corner can be pruned up high enough that vision ision near the intersection wont won't be blocked Evergreen trees should be planted some someplace someplace someplace place other than at ut an inter inter- section Pines Spruces and Junipers generally look better if jf they are not pruned high but left branching right to the ground therefore if thc they are planted at al an intersection they can cnn be a big hazard Trees frees can be a rea real asset to our city and we can all enjoy them much more if we plant the right kind in the right place and give them a reasonable amount of or care |