Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-03-25 | Page 13 | Trees That Thrive Here

tees lees That Thrive Here wood Shade J frees Trees Adaptable to Salt Lake City I Soils Climate and Wide Streets 1 THE ELMS By ROBERT MILLER r b botanical name of ot the elm Is Ius- Ius The elm is considered by to be one of ot the test est shade trees known and they'D they D Ibe seen at their best and In all stateliness and grace race England in New Haven sometimes called the Elm City 1 Mass Quite a few be seen right here In Salt and other places in Utah lelm should have a place with shade tree commission for as a noted O 1 writer The e et elm alone 1 n or in company p Js is of handing beauty The solitary tree t species carries the perfect mes- mes r I of ot the tho reigning monarch while road broad avenue in a double the trees e offers an arching finely lInely eY expressive of ot the thought proves were Gods God's first tem- tem For wide streets and broad ea lit has no superior With Its arching crown its graceful droop- droop foliage Ilage page of ot brilliant green the elm ds f a summer picture not offered n other tree I If f TIT The enemies of ot the elm are ery i-ery I numerous and rather serious as most I of ot the varieties of ot the American elm I f are subject t to the h ravages a of many I fea t insect ec pests and n some o diseases s but our own hl high h class authority on elms Joseph Smith of Providence Utan who died only last winter says the English variety of ot the elm Ulmus is practically free from II these pests and that this variety can cano cane be grown o here with splendid d success There e are e many varieties of t the elm I but Mr Smith said that I is the only one that he would recommend recommend recommend mend growing in Utah and he was wai probably one of the best authorities on the elm in the United States and unquestionably of Utah The Salt Lake City tree commission would do o well to malts make a trip to Providence Providence Providence Provi Provi- dence in Cache valley and see Mr Smiths Smith's grove of elms and if it the true variety of can be secured se secured se- se cured to try some in some of ot the streets of Salt Lake City To be continued