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Show Trees of Paris Being Killed by Gas Fumes Automobiles and elm and chestnut trees can't live in the same streets in Paris, and the trees are moving out. It costs $G0 each to replace the dying trees with varities that can breathe the gas-filled air of modern society. As rapidly as money is available the old trees are giving way to hardier planes, cedars and other kinds. There are 83,000 trees along the streets of Paris and in the small green squares, but the nunfber is being reduced re-duced as trees die out because often they were too crowded. Once upon a time, before the machine age, the trees were planted 18 feet apart. Now, It has been found, street trees need more space to breathe the vitiated viti-ated air. They are being put in 23 feet apart. Poverty seems to be the particular trouble with Paris trees for the appropriation ap-propriation for a year's care is only 80 cents each. |