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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Tree-Eined Avenues. 
There are trees that naturally flourish under pre- 
vailing conditions, in all cities. The true art of street 
tree planting is to select the trees best adapted to 
local environments. 
The maples of New England, the live oaks and mag- 
nolias of the southern states and the palms of south- 
ern California show the best developments of each, 
and consequently there is not the labor and expense 
involved as there unavoidably is in creating congenial 
surroundings for adopted or foreign trees. Los An- 
geles, Cal., has avenues bordered with palms that are 
magnificent in scenic effect. These palms are not all 
native Californians, but many of them are. The hand- 
somest of the native palms is the Washingtonia. The 
it is as well to say that not all native trees, however 
free, are desirable. For instance, the live oak is a bet- 
ter street and park tree than the magnolia. The latter 
sheds its leaves, which are large and stiff, all the year 
round. An evergreen, it has no regular fall-of-the- 
leaf, but sheds some leaves every day the wind stirs. 
Then the cones, that form after the flowers, fall for 
weeks. The live oak has no objections unless to the 
acorns, which are small but borne in abundance. The 
plane or sycamore is a tree of universal adoption. It is 
a majestic street tree, as shown in Washington, Salt 
Lake and other cities. The trunks are columnar, the 
limbs always high up, and the bark almost white, 
slightly tinted green. The plane sheds the outer bark. 
early Spanish padres and Jesuit missionaries recog- 
nized the beauty and long life of this palm, and hun- 
dreds of them were removed from canyons and desert 
])lains to the old mission gardens and to the then in- 
fant towns and settlements. They are glorious em- 
blems of a country’s past. No new growth, however 
fostered, can equal the palm, oak or other tree of a 
century of growth. The old mission gardens are 
permanently adorned by these old palms. Historic, 
inseparably connected with the early settlement of the 
Pacific Coast, the old missions are doubly sacred. Cal- 
ifornia preserves and honors them. Tourists visit 
them and artists delight to sketch them and the views 
they command. 
Taking the palms of Los Angeles as an example of 
how street trees may become a city’s chief adorning, 
leaving the smooth, satiny white bark exposed. This 
is one tree the objections to which are not worth men- 
tioning. 
The most objectionable street trees are those that 
grow upon rhizoma roots. They are tempting because 
they exceed all trees in rapidity of growth. The silver 
leaf poplar or aspen belongs to this class, the cut-pa- 
per-leaf mulberry and the black locust or false acacia, 
all of which will make fine shade trees in two years 
from one year-old saplings when set in place. The 
roots grow proportionately with the tops and the ten- 
dency is constantly to send up scions, causing up- 
heavals of pavement bricks and stone. The greatest 
vigilance is necessary to prevent these sprouts coming 
up between stones and brick, widening crevices and 
injuring walks. 
