Show NOME TOWN m NUT TREES FOR THE HIGHWAY In Many Respects They Are More Suitable Than the Varieties Which Bear Fruit j I When It was suggested that fruit trees be planted along nong the sides of ot American roadways as Is the custom In lu some parts of Europe a good many people must have had their doubts about the feasibility of the plan In a a. country where a considerable portion of ot the population has still to learn carefully to respect public rights and property especially when the rights are unfamiliar and the property Is oC ot oCa ofa a kind that nobody is under a special and and salaried salaried obligation obligation to protect Another and probably more hopeful proposal Is to plant not fruit trees but nut trees as highway ornaments ornament and possible sources of ot profit Many of ot our native nut trees are far tar more beautiful to the eye than fruit trees ever are and they are as much superIor superior superior su su- su- su too as providers of ot shade They hey are much better able than fruit trees to take care of themselves b because because- cause X f their flowers are inconspicuous Their product is a valuable one and Its fairly equitable distribution every year could safely be left to the children chil chit children dren of ot any given neighborhood One of New Yorks York's eminent physicians physicians phy phy- Dr Robert T. T Morris has been preaching for years and years the value val val- value ue of ot nut trees lIe He even goes so far faras faras faras as to Insist that if humanity had turned turned turn turn- ed to these trees Instead of to the cereals for Its main source of vegetable food starch food starch and oil oil oil-it It could have han been fed better than now and at much less expenditure of labor Whether Doctor Morris is right or wrong in to that large claim there is no doubt that our country roads road would nod be made pleasanter for all aU who use them if It they were turned Into Into majestic avenues a bordered bordered by such trees as ns as hickories I beeches chestnuts oaks and a dozen other |