Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-20 | Page 9 | Nation Plants Trees to Honor Soldiers

0 IMLK State Landscape Gardener Says the Movement Progresses Pro-gresses Satisfactorily. According ' to Perley A. Hill. land, scape gardener, the national movement to "Plant a tree for a soldier" to commemorate com-memorate the men in the service, is progressing pro-gressing in Utah. He advocates planting plant-ing trees from the seed as living tribute trib-ute and homage to the men in the army and navy. , "Why wait for the city or state to erect monuments of stone and bronze in places where you will only see them occasionally f ' he asked yesterday. "Vhy not have a monument of your owfi where you can see it every day Plant a 'memorial'' tree on the home grounds. Plant it where it can be seen from your windows. Give it care and attention and it will become a living reminder of the boys that fought so well. Watch the formation of the buds, the'unfolding of the leaves and gradual development of the characteristics of ils kind. Then you -will realize the close relationship of a tree to a human being. For trees have character, each kind separate and distinct, reveals nature's great intention. ' ' When asked for his suggestion as to the best kind of trees to plant in IHah, he replied, "The redwood will grow here; a fine specimen is growing in the state hospital grounds' at Provo. The list of ornamental trees is a long one. Some fine trees that do well in this climate are Norway maple, sugar maple, American elm, American linden, horse chestnut, weeping birch, black walnut, sycamore, American ash. tulip tree, alianthus, maidenhair, .Russian mulberry, mul-berry, hawthorn, flowering cherry and flowering crab. "Many of the above mentioned enn be seen growing in Salt Lake City, some of them over (53 years of age. "Of the evergreens, no finer tree can be planted than the native tree of Utah, the blue spruce. Then (here is the native na-tive white pine, American pine, Norway spruce. Scotch pine. Virginia cedar, balsam bal-sam fir and Chinese arbor-vitae. April is the month to plant trees, a ml every one of the 20,000 Utah soldiers is entitled en-titled to have a tree planted in his honor, flet the national slogan in your mind, 'Plant a Tree for a Soldier.".''