Show TREES ARE NICE The trees which grow around America's homes contribute to our survival in a number of different and unexpected according lo the American Association of MEMBERS of American Association of Nurserymen point out that the selection and placement of trees for today's homes require forethought and information about the various trees Most modern homes are served best by medium sized trees w i t h a maximum height of 30 to 40 feet at maturity and a total spread of about same IF A tree is placed properly in the and separated from the house by a distance equal to half its it will cast shade on part of the roof and sides of the either in the morning or To provide the best shade and cooling the placement of the trees should be in relation to the cast-west path of the and its position in relation to the house itself will be determined by the direction of house faces and rooms to be The best source of information and guidance is your local landscape nursery or garden which provide cooling shade during hot summer months and shed their leaves lo let warm sunlight through in also serve as Nature's most effective dust traps and sound the nursery experts Twelve million tons of particulate matter dirt in the air we are Trees are They have They heip reduce They cut down Trees are Like these at Stoker released into the atmosphere of the United States every and flowers act as natural traps for this airborne THE HAIRY leaf surfaces clutch falling particles and keep a steady rain of dust and dirl from saturating the air with solid In trees are such effective dust trappers that the city of Los Angeles washes its trees periodically with a detergent TREES PLAY an important role in reducing the noise pollution around Heavy street traffic registers a noise level of 70 Proper landscaping with the use of trees can reduce that noise about 60 percent according lo a of Nebraska study to cut the sound of a heavily-traveled highway running past a home to the level of a suburban street in the quiet of Aside from the shade they trees contribute another cooling effect through their evaporative THE eva porn t i on f ro m a single property-watered tree can produce an estimated cooling effect gf more than a million BTU's equal to en room sized air conditioners operating 20 hours a The environmental Depends On is available free at many nursery garden or may be obtained by sending 50 cents lo the American Association of Southern D. C. |