EUCALYPTUS, 77 



The most beautiful as well as the hardiest of our road 

 trees is the feathery green-foliaged scarlet-berried pepper 

 (Schinus molle). I have seen persons with a few feet of 

 road frontage chop out superb specimens of this beautiful 

 tree from a planted and established roadway of them. Then 

 they would put in some short lived grevilleas, some palm or 

 other tree. 



Even in cases where a local substitution was of a 

 handsomer tree the effect of such a piece of work could 

 only be ugly, spoiling the effect and force of the general 

 shaded roadway, breaking the unity in time and line 

 beauty. A tree-shaded roadway is always effective, no 

 matter what the tree is, providing the plan of planting is 

 harmonious. Amongst the streets planted to shade trees in 

 Santa Monica by Mr. J. \V. Scott at the laying out of 

 that town many years ago, is Nevada avenue. This ave- 

 nue was planted with Eucalyptus globulus, which, owing 

 to the favorable climate, has made a specially satisfactory 

 growth. The avenue, as a whole, had a beauty due to 

 the large size of the trees and the dignity of its harmo- 

 nious planting. Yet, from time to time, one lot owner or 

 another has cut out the blue gums; in one place planting 

 peppers, in another grevilleas, in another palms, until now 

 it is a broken medley of little and big, old and young 

 trees of inharmonious character without force or effect. 

 Both the lot owners and the authorities were doubtless 

 well intentioned, but were aesthetically blind. 



There is no more beautiful and no grander road tree 

 than the American elm, still this fact would not justify, 

 nor even excuse, a man for cutting, on his own small 

 frontage, four lindens, in such an avenue as that near 

 Weisbaden, to replace them with elms. The cutting out 



