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we ever look our progeny in the eye as in the future we drive along a boule- 

 vard and say to them tliat we were responsible for having had it planted as 

 it is? For the combinations are pitiful to see. One eighteen mile stretch of 

 good roads has been planted to Himalayan cedars and California fan palms, 

 alternately set every forty feet — a case of forced association between a 

 graceful, adopted child of the forests with a living feather duster torn from 

 the sun-baked sands of our own deserts; another longer stretch of pavement 

 is lined by native red woods and southern magnolias also planted alternately 

 — the one being a giant timber tree, loving the cool mountain slopes, the other 

 a native of the huinid tropical swamps of our southern states; a tliird road is 



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Plate 19:;*. Pi-j)i)fr tree {Schiniui molle) is a praccful tree for street planting. 



planted to pines and live oaks. In the first place the trees thus planted 

 together are not adapted to the same climatic and soil conditions, some of 

 them being entirely unfit for satisfactory growth in the localities where set; 

 in the second place, four, with a possible five, of these trees are undesirable 

 for roadway planting because of their characteristic growth ; in the third place, 

 two kinds of trees should not be used on the same avenue even though our 

 {esthetic sense demands such a variety. But let this much suffice, for we have 

 shown the proper spirit in starting things, and though good intentions will 

 not buy us much, they are very essential to the accomplishment of good things. 

 And we have once more shown that we, as Californians, have initiative. 



