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PARK AND CEMETERY 
IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONS 
CONDUCTED BY 
MRS, FRANCES COPLEY SEAVEY, 
TREES AND TREE PLANTING. 
The desirability of planting trees should never be 
overlooked by imi)rovement workers ; it is work of 
tbe highest importance, more essential than any other 
branch of planting, and monnmental in character. 
Many organizations have made it their chief labor 
and no one can gainsay its advantages. Planting 
plant trees. Take time to consider well zvhere to 
plant ; make no greater haste in determining zvhat 
to plant; and, again, make haste very slowly zvhcn 
yon plant. 
Selecting street shade trees is a subject for mature, 
intelligent and trained minds. There are trees that 
are good for the purpose and for all varieties of soil, 
climate and situation, but wisdom and knowledge are 
essential in tbeir choice. Trees of the right shape, size 
and manner of growth ; the proper distance apart to 
place various sjjecies ; trees suited to clay, sand, loam, 
lime, etc. ; trees for high and dry locations ; trees for 
low and damp situations ; trees that will not tempt 
SOME GOOD TREES ABOUT LIBRARY BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, CHAMPAIGN, ILL. 
Hackberry (Celtis occideiitalis), American elms (Ulmus Americana), soft maple (Acer dasycarpum) and others. 
trees is truly planting for posterity, and blessed will 
be the memories of those who plant by those who in- 
herit. But just because they should serve as an in- 
heritance trees must be chosen wisely and well, be 
properly treated from the outset, and have necessary 
care after they are set. Planting trees is emphatically 
one of the things that is worth doing well, if it is done 
at all. If it is not literally planting for eternity, — 
and I am not sure that it isn’t, — it is at any rate plant- 
ing for a good large slice of time, or it may be if taste 
and judgment are exercised. 
So don’t jump to conclusions when you elect to 
the boys beyond their inability to resist temptation ; 
these are among the points to be duly taken into ac- 
count, but they by no means exhaust the list of im- 
portant considerations. Expert advice is the real ne- 
cessitv and the surest means to success. 
Hi ^ * 
The Department of Agriculture sowed i6 bushels of 
catalpa seed in 1901, the seedlings of which are being 
distributed in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, 
Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas, where it is found to 
flourish and where it is expected to furnish supplies of 
ties for Western railroads. Many railway companies 
