Show f Some Pointers on Trees The big wind that passed over the twin cities recen recently y taught much about what trees to plant plan for permanent permanent perma perma- nent shade shado and other effects One might easily have hae expected the softer varieties of wood to break first firs but would hardly be prepared to see the thease ease ase with which box elders and soft maples are uprooted When it is let alone the former likes to branch near 7 the ground and it can be seen on the prairie more like a gigantic bush than like a tree This ha habit it of growth would not call for any great spread of roots except in capturing nourish nourish- m t T an n operation in which in-which which the tree is supposed to excel We have known a tree of the kind to send its roots to almost any length in the seams of a quarry yet in well and watered wa wa- lawns lawns it is th the first to give way give way at the root It should be less missed than any other sort Among the in in- l trees the elms hold an intermediate intermediate inter inter- mediate position furnishing not so much more mor more resistance to the winds than the sorts mentioned This is a pity they being such universal ersal favorites favorites favor favor- favorItes ites for shade trees Coniferous trees and the larches seem to hold up well wen against winds as do the ashes and white walnuts although so few of the latter are used for shade that one cannot cannot can can- not sp speak al with confidence of their heir per per- Coming to trees of slower growth and harder wood the hard maples maples ma ma- ples pIes in the track of the storm seemed to suffer much more than their num numbers numbers I bers would warrant but the oaks pres preserved pre pre- s served ed their reputation for sturdiness s while the humble hackberry ta hel t 1 own as well as any By the way oaks of some varieties are b by no no- no means mean so slow of of growth growth- as s I Imagined by some nor are they so soan an averse to the ways of ot civilization as has been taught Western Western Architect |