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see a tree standing where we might put in a concrete sidewalk, were the 

 money available. It never occurs to us to save the trees as other countries 

 have been doing for generations, by leaving sufficient space around them for 

 watering and cultivating the soil about their roots which are protected by 

 placing an iron grating over the opening in the pavement so that the pedes- 

 trians may not be hindered although the tree is protected. Paris has thus 

 guarded and reared her city street trees for years, till she has become famed 

 the world over for her beautifully planted avenues. We plant our trees, 

 gorge ourselves with good intentions, rave about the beauty to be and phone 



/ Plate 191. Eufalyptiis viminalis. Were the palms and smaller trees removed to leave 

 only the stately Eucalypts, the beauty of this street would be increased. 



for the gardener with his grubbing mattock, while we prepare a dissertation 

 on "Woodman, Spare That Tree." 



However, Californians are not in the habit of satisfying themselves with 

 good intentions but rather pride themselves on their initiative, the fame of 

 which has spread as far as that of the state. Los Angeles has appointed a 

 division of county forestry that has among its duties those of planting out 

 county highways and boulevards with roadside trees. I have no doubt that 

 the members of this commission have worked hard and conscientiously. We 

 know that they have planted miles of our roads to trees that they are caring 

 for carefully — but my ! what a choice of varieties to testify to posterity the 

 advanced stage of our development and wisdom in things arboreal. IIow can 



