| Show SHADE TREES A ride about the fhe city would convince anyone deyone that an improvement can be made in the matter of 0 shade trees that f fringe ri the waterways ol of the city heretofore the poplar and locust have been the favorites and in the beginning the box elder was about the only tree known in these parts each of oe these there three species ot of shade tree have hav esome something about them that make them lul un as shade trees despite the ast jagt I 1 that they grow to beautiful proportions theoplas Theop the poplar lar Is one ou or oc the worst thieves and dop leters of the humus in the foll eoll that can be found it sends send its roots everywhere every everyn n here and hayw here where alier they can get nourishment having bail the evil tendency to shoot up from the end of the root many rods distant from the th e I 1 tree itself A row ot of these trees freds s imply makes makei life unbearable tor for orchard or garden and for that reason alone they ought to go the locust is a gentle tree slow to send forth its foliage in the spring and quick to shed its leaves in autumn As a hard wood producer it is all right but is a failure as a shade tree the giant limox box F elder lder cani can hardly be surpassed as a sun shade and it is equally successful ssu as s an insect breeder almost every bind of an insect will feed on the box elder and the whose places aro surrounded by a row of these trees either have to spray the shade treba tree with theer fru fruit 1 lf trees of else the spraying of the orchard avails little the box kl elder de i r is a verl table gathering place for plant insect in past years the heavy winds have blown many of the shade trees about the city out of line other rows were not planted straight in the beginning and the result is that pedestrians have to be some somewhat Nihat of contortionists to get along some ot of the sidewalks safely ly where such conditions prevail the entire rows of trees ought to be uprooted and replaced by others planted in perfect alignment and then the right kind of 0 a tree should be planted in this matter the civic improvement L league r ague could do valuable service tor for obade trees are a matter that affect our civic beauty steps might be taken to determine just what specia specie ot of shado shade tree would be most profitable in in a locality like ours and in determining that question soil climate effects upon the fruit orchards susceptibility to the ravages of insects and quality to produce shade should be considered it if a xui suitable table tree could be decided upon and there is no ques question lion as to that then that tree ought ough tto to be adopted as community the thel shade tree to be planted as rapidly as tb the old un unsightly trees that now ad kiy our streets in many places are pulled up brigham ighani Br city has always been lau 1 ed for or her abundance of shad t trees rees we all like them bliem but the iii majority rity 0 of those thosa that furnish us alia shade ae have cyp proven unsatisfactory for reasons sta teft above and there has been somewhat of f an active campaign L waged against them especially the poplar property Proper tv owners owner s are under the necessity of planting vertree suits their fancy and aad the result is a diversified growth that does not have the beauty that one kind presenting a solid front over the entire city would have A flock ot of barred plymouth rock nock chickens looks beautiful scatter 9 a few rhode island reds white leg leghorns borns horns and lilack ilin orcas among them and the picture Is spoiled lets make brigham famous for a certain kind of shade tree just as denmark is renowned for her great forests ot of beech |
