Show O O ll TREES PLANTED TOO THICKLY Mistake Made by Many People Who Set Out the Desirable Shade for forthe forthe forthe the Summer Days A week ago the writer saw a street where trees had just been planted but twenty twenty five five feet apart There Is no trod tred large enough for street use that should be planted so thickly Could every other one be taken out at the end often ol ot olten otten ten years from planting no fault could be found with the scheme At a score of years after planting pepper trees are dose close enough at 60 feet apart For the first ten years they could well ell bo ho o maintained at 30 feet apart but who will cut away the offending alternates when the time is ripe Unfortunately all are left to form a solid wall of ot green reen on each side of the street so that no glimpse of anything may be seen outside this narrow end and uninteresting channel dubbed usually a b beautiful avenue venue of living green a serious misnomer Each tree should be silhouetted against the sky so that its individuality individual individual- ity may be s seen en its beauty of outline grace grace of carriage form and color of foliage and nd flower and also that a clear view may be had of both the near and the distant landscape Let LetIn Letin Letin in the glorious sunshine and air also let them out and have landscape views vs as free Neither fence In anything anything anything any any- any any- thing or fence out anything The trees may with propriety be made to appropriate their just share of the territory territory ter ter- and the view but no no more There should be other rights and other places for other objects Los Los Angeles ngel s Times |