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As to Riverside 's street trees : Ten years ago our streets were largely 

 bare of ornamentation. In 1904 the Chamber of Commerce took the 

 matter in hand. It secured from the city authorities the privilege of 

 planting trees, and raised a thousand dollars for the purpose, appointed 

 a tree planting committee, and went to work. In 1907 it succeeded in 

 persuading the city authorities to adopt municipal control of its trees 

 and parks, provide for a board of park commissioners, appoint a tree 

 warden and go into the tree planting business itself. Some 15.000 trees 

 were planted, many of them now well grown, entirely transforming the 

 general appearance of the city, and at present considered one of its most 

 yalual)le assets. The city is attracting thousands of visitors because of 

 its beauty, and securing many a desirable permanent resident. But the 

 daily added enjoyment of our own people, because of this general beauti- 

 fication. and the constant intluence it exerts, is the principal thing gained. 

 "What Riverside has done and is doing in this regard, other towns have 

 also done and are doing, and many others may easily do, very greatly to 

 their permanent advantage. 



A word as to roadside jilantings : ]\Iany enjoy auto riding because of 

 the rapid motion, like children in a swing; but let our frecjuented high- 

 Avays be lined with such intere-iting trees as our California conditions 

 can quickly and cheaply provide, and the real enjoyment of intelligent 

 auto travel would be much greater; it would add to the cost of these 

 roads by a small fraction, but their greater value to the State, and the 

 increased enjoyment of the travelers Avould be immensely out of pro- 

 portion to this small additional cost. Of course, this work will have to 

 be done gradually, but I feel sure that there are enterprising sections 

 of our State that will demand it. In all these tree planting projects 

 the element of time must be considered. Results are to be enjoyed in 

 anticipation. Imagine, in ttn, fifteen or twenty years from now, long 

 sections of these tree-lined boulevards, bordered by our orchards, gardens 

 rnd cultivated farms, with frontages kept in order, dotted at intervals 

 with interesting homes, and broken by frequent villages and larger 

 towns with uniform tree-lined streets. Isn't it something worthy of 

 cur present encouragement? 



