Show ki HOME TOWN I 1 HELPS 4 GROWING TREES IN BELGIUM there they are ara used to redeem waste places and make thera them beautiful while trees everywhere are swept down to be turned into rag newspapers belgium busies itself with planting its townships have instituted tree festivals and I 1 have just come frow fron one ona of them in the black country around mons lions what do you think of a public park already a beautiful and refreshing one on the district of jerrils of heaps of colliery rubbish and smelters shelters sm elters scoria resembling cannock chase A landscape gardener has turned the rough inequalities similar to the chopping waves of the straits of dover nto into hills and dells and charming points of view M alphano did no better in transforming ies carrieres Carrl erca lamerique dA dAmerl que into the butte de chaumont as we now see it the air of tho the jerrils thus transformed Is now wholesome it used to be poisoned polson dd with carbonic acid which we know gives health and strength to trees they suck what Is good air for them but deadly air to us from long joni distances and over overhead bead an effect noted by aviators in tho the great circuit de iest the next generation will see in the dales and along the tha drives on the erst blackened flats japanese trees of the gigantic species planted in japan along the avenues to the temples tem plea maisus and cedars yet saplings will brave storms on headlands created on purpose to bo be decorated by them when one climbs a sugar loaf hill one already sees a vast continuity of sylvan verdure the trees treca of rapid growth will in time malce make way for those that come up slowly such as the ash the oak and the beech the lady of tile tho forest the elegant birch rises in tall beauty to interest every one in tho the work of sylvan transformation places are marked out for the greater and lesser towns for villages and town lands and lists of tb trees they can plant with festal gladness anro sent to thorn them each town etc has hap its day or sunday the burgo maftei and inhabitants come out in their finest clothes a band preceding them and playing popular airs tho the church and musical societies furnish singers who reserve their vocal effects for the tree planting scene and the banquet that follows london truth troth |