Show Director Defends Early arly in ill the settlement of ot Utah some one with an taste and lovo love for trees was Influential in tho tiled planting of lombardy Some S-ome of these trees have decorated almost every ery farn farmstead stead in the tho state e and many of the city lots within the towns I One author in his his- visit visH to Utah more than 30 years ago stated that no more beautiful scene could be found out doors than that of a Utah farmstead all with its high rugged I moun mountain background j well placed I buildings and towering lombardy lomba poplars r reaching aching above the common i vegetation and pointing p their tops I toward the heavenly blue sky It seems to be a 13 common admiration admiration admira admira- I I tion for the tae people who visit Utah only occasionally to speak of the beauty which the lombardy poplar has added to to the farmstead in the moun mountain in valle valleys s That beauty still L ilna- ilna i The Tho life of t ti t e e tr tree e however Is Is' Is m only from 35 to 40 years Many o othe the trees S have already aheady reached Inage in inage inage age their expected normal life Ute The Phe trees s acre dy dying ng some seme from disease d or drouth but mos most of them because they have lived their regular life Uto c cycle cle It is the e exception to find a aI arow arow I row of lombardy today day that does doCs not show stag top in which a part of the time top of or the tree has died It has grown ragged and andIs andis andis is disintegrated Because these trees have lived their life c cycle cle the artistic beauty of tree planting in n inthe inthe the state is facing a a. dilemma Very few of these trees have been pant pant- p ant ant- od in recent yeas years and if the same procedure should continue for tor anota another er two decades very few rew tomb dy will remain remain I do not believe there are many citizens in Utah who would like hike to tb L ur 3 see bee us u-us S tree ri 1 ney have nayo been topped dutch cropped and I in every conceivable fashion i to allow space pace for far electric wires etc But Dut the tae lombardy popular r with its high towering beauty still commands com com- man mands s a place in the Utah la land landscape nd The tree is not especially valuable valuable valuable able for its tim er but it has made Utah ti Q This species is t with elimination unless now new plantings of or lombardy poplars are made Do we want this tree to continue It Is hoped that the people peo peo- pe people pIe of Utah dill ill make some expression expression expresion ex ex- of opinion By Dy Director William P Paterson terson Extension S Service |