ARBORICULTURE 



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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARBORICUTURE 



Subscription $1.00 per annum. John P. Brown, Editor and Publisher. 



Entered as Second-class Matter, January 4th, 1904 



Vol. VI 



Connersville, Indiana, November, 1907 



Number 6 



Shade Trees For Town and City Streets. 



No matter how rich the designs, how 

 elaborate the architectural display, how 

 costly the structures or how perfect the 

 w^orkmanship, there is no city, no home, 

 no public building but what can be im- 

 proved in appearance, made more at- 

 tractive, and become more beautiful by favor, and that, quick growth, 

 the addition of suitable foliage. The object of this effort by Arbor- 



While the city of Washington has iculture is to present the claims of many 

 many fine avenues of trees, some of its trees suited for street planting, showing 

 public buildings seem constructed 



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own surroundings more attractive, or by 



planting such trees as are most unde- 

 sirable from w^ant of information as to 

 the character of various street trees. 



The tendency is to plant such trees 

 as have but one solitary quality in their 



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specially to display the skill of the 

 architect, not a tree nor vine to offset 

 the stiff, formal lines of the granite 

 structures. 



The Castles of Europe, centuries old, 

 are far more handsome vs^ith the vines 

 covering the walls than they ever w^ere 

 before nature hid the vanity of the 

 architect with attractive foliage. 



The city streets w^hich are ornament- 

 ed with fine trees; affording delightfully 

 shaded avenues, attract the attention 

 of all w^ho see them, while the absence 

 of shaded streets or the presence of un- 

 desirable trees cannot fail to receive 

 the rebuke which they deserve from 

 strangers who may visit such localities. 



The carelessness of a large majority 

 of citizens of almost every city is re- 

 markable when it is considered that all 

 of them admire beautiful homes and 

 shaded avenues, while neglecting to 

 plant and care for trees to make their 



all their advantages in order that plant- 

 ers may select such as may be desir- 

 able for their locality. 



With so large a territory as is covered 

 by the United States, with its various 

 climate, soils and conditions, it would 

 be difficult to name one tree which will 

 be satisfactory everywhere, and thus we 

 endeavor to show as many good trees 

 as possible which are adapted to the 

 various conditions existing in all parts 

 of the country. 



There are varying conditions existing 

 in town and cities which require care- 

 ful consideration in selecting, planting 

 and managing trees designed for shade 

 in public streets, soil conditions, moist- 

 ure, protection against injury from 

 stock, from vehicles, and from playful 

 boys, air spaces in paved streets, tramp- 

 ing of animals, injury to roots by pave- 

 ment and street improvement, as well 

 as guarding against obstructions of 

 sewers by encroaching roots, must all 



