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oniniend the scarlt't maple, whic-h is of rapid - TRKKS of NEW ORLEANS, 



growth an.l forms a good round head with- T^^e prohjnged season of summ.-r tem- 



out much prunmg. perature, which occurs in southi'rn cities. 



THE OAKS. "^'^y ^® better endured if abundant shade 



be provided. Southern cities have broad 



P\ir forest planting there are a number of verandas surrounding their houses, but as a 



oaks which are not suitable for street or rule are careless as to the character of 



shade trees, principally on account of slower the shade trees. 



development, but the red oak {Quercus ru- Audubon Park contains a broad avenue 



bni) is of very rapid growth, and desirable of most magnificent live-oak trees, there 



for permanent street planting. Scarlet are also many in City Park, while upon some 



oak {Quercus coccinea) is one of the hand- of the principal residence streets are fine 



somest of the oak family. Willow oak specimens of live oak, magnolia and other 



(Quercus phellos) is also a quick growing, trees which the North would be very proud 



beautiful tree, the leaves being willow- to possess. 



shaped. Pin oak (Quercus palustris) is well The very narrow streets in the old French 



known as an ornamental tree. The oaks portion of the city, have scant room for 



are neglected in street planting from an trees. Yet the broad avenues such as St. 



erroneous idea that they are of very slow Charles, Canal, Tulane and others, should 



growth. True, they do not mature as be lined with trees. 



quickly as a willow, but still they should be The electric car-lines and telephone 



u.sed far more extensively than they have companies, as usual, dominate the city and 



been. destroy the trees. Handsome young trees 



Some time ago I was surveying a timber were planted on both sides the double track 



tract in Kentucky, on high mountain land, of street car lines, in the center of these 



Coming to a corner the deed called for a red avenues, but they can never produce shade 



oak five inches in diameter, witnessed by or become an ornament. The trolley poles, 



four other trees. In eighteen years this electric light and telephone poles, at varying 



tree had grown from five inches to be one height, keep the trees from extending up- 



of twenty inches diameter. Few so-called wards, while the nearness to the passing 



quick-growing trees would have done cars prevents side extension of branches, 



better. hence it is impossible for them ever to 



The tendency among planters is to disre- develop. 



gard our most desirable American trees and If the wires and tracks are to be in the 



seek only the one quality of rai)id maturity, center of the streets, then a system of 



Remember that permanence is of greater planting should be adopted on each side as 



importance than haste in arboriculture. exists in some portions of the city. 



Nowhere in the world does vegetation 



THE HORSE CHP^STNUT, make a more rapid growth, or can such fine 



, . , , . . ^ i. . . ^. • • trees be grown, as in this rich alluvial delta 



(Aesculus hippocastanum,) of Asiatic origm ^^^^ ^^ ^^,^.^^ ^^^^ 0^.,^.^^^^ i^ 1,,^^^^.^ 



18 a favorite tree in Pennsylvania, eastward j^ -^ ^. ^^ ^ question, who owns the city, 



through New Fngland. It has never been ^^^ ^j^^^^j^ companies or the citizens ? If 



successful in the drier atmosphere of the ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ trees should be planted and 



West. The several buckeyes of the W est- properly cared for. 



em States are of the same family, but are 



not used for ornament or street planting. ♦ ♦ ♦ 



The destruction caused by the gypsy 



moth at Buffalo and Roche.ster, N. Y., and THE SOUTHERN CYPRESS, 



in New England cities, will doubtless dis- Taxodium distichum. 

 gust tree planters with the horse chestnut. 



The leaves are skeletonizetl and the masses Because a tree does grow in the water is 



of white eggs deposited upon the trees not evidence that it prefers that situation, 



show that the depredations will not be les- The cypress, which is held in such esteem 



sened in the future. for lumber, and which sufiplies many thou- 



What havoc has been caused by one sci- sands of cro.ss-ties f<jr our railways, is indig- 



entific fool who imported this pest! enous to the swampy regions of the Gulf 



