Show treba on thoroughfares william A coffin the landscape painter in a lecture on art before a society made an earnest plea in the furtherance of art for the plant ing of more trees on our thoroughfares these play a great part in breaking tho lines of our monotonous or often incongruous architecture ho pointed out that paris with a climate as rigorous as ours owes its beauty to a great extent to the enrichment that verdure londs it for six months of the year ho counted on the doctors bearing him out in anis plea on account of thy sanitary proper bics tics foliage possesses he remarked that while we are waiting for a baron haussmann to rehabilitate our thoroughfares and make them yield artistic angles wo can at least render the vista encompassed by the eyo more agreeable by having it presented through horse chest nuta and maples new york times |