SHADE TEEES FOR NORTH CAROLINA. 



By W. W. Ashe. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Shade trees should be regarded as a necessity on the streets of the 

 cities and towns of North Carolina. They lessen the heat and glare of the 

 long hot summer days without checking the cooling southern breezes, and 

 filter from the air a large portion of the dust which rises from the streets 

 and roads. Nor must their aesthetic qualities be overlooked. Towns 

 fortunate enough to have shaded narks and a WppU lnnrr\oro^\ ttW+t-i -nnn+i-r 



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tlieir great number, it is exceptional when most satisfactory results cannot 

 be secured by their use. Only a few species thrive under the artificial 

 conditions which exist on paved streets. In most species such situations 

 are too unnatural, though they may be healthy trees and well suited for 

 unpaved streets as well as for roads and parks. In many localities the 

 existence of insect pests or destructive diseases prevent the use of what 

 might otherwise prove most desirable trees. Even when a species may 

 be able to grow on a paved street, other conditions may determine its 

 unfitness. For example, only forms with narrow crowns or ascending 

 branches, or small species, are adapted to narrow streets or when the 

 buildings impinge closely upon the planting line. 



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