January 24, 1903. 
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< Views and Reviews. 
Roadside and Street* Trees. 
For some time past a good deal of adverse 
comment has been passed upon the roadside 
trees at Worthing, Sussex. Mr. G. B. Simp¬ 
son, of Horsham, in the same county, re¬ 
cently drew up a report upon the trees, the 
treatment of which he subjects to* a good deal 
of warm criticism. Many of the trees were 
too closely planted at the outset, and others 
were entirely unsuited to the purpose for 
which they were intended. Nor is this all; 
for Mr. Simpson cannot conceive for 'what 
reason the Limes in Homefield Road have 
been cut, nor what object the operators had 
in view when they out the trees into* their 
present unintelligible shapes. He imagines 
that some instructions must, have been given 
them before they commenced such wholesale 
slaughter, which has so disfigured them that 
it will take years before they will assume 
their natural forms again. 
Worthing is not. alone in the peculiar mis¬ 
fortune to which its trees have been sub¬ 
jected. Some years ago the trees at Turn- 
ham Green had been so out that they re¬ 
sembled! very much ivorn brooms inverted. 
The circumstance excited considerable dis¬ 
cussion in the local papers at the time, and 
since then the trees have been allowed to* as¬ 
sume more or less their natural shapes, 
except that all the lower branches are still 
absent, as they were then. In populous 
places this is almost a necessity, in order to 
prevent the street urchin from breaking them 
down and climbing in the trees. But the 
unreasonable lopping to which we refer, 
and which had the effect of making the 
trees look bald, gave the green a weird 
appearance. The Lime trees, being 
plated round the edge of the green, 
interfered with nothing, so that their 
plight was precisely similar to those at 
Worthing. The unnatural shape into 'which 
they had: been cut bad reference* neither to 
utility nor beauty, nor any canon o*f arbori¬ 
culture coming within our ken. Fortunately 
for the trees, the lesson then afforded by 
correspondents in the local Press was taken 
to 'heart*, and the open space has greatly im¬ 
proved in that suburban locality. 
The London Planes planted along the High 
Road, Chiswick, are annually subjected to° a 
severe pruning, but the operators can claim 
that they have some object in view when they 
set about accomplishing their annual task in 
winter; and, apparently, that is more than 
their brethren of the craft at* Worthing can 
lay claim to. The pavement is moderately 
wide, but the trees are planted* near the kerb, 
so that, wide as the High Road, Chiswick’ 
is, the double electric tram line leave® no¬ 
thing more than space for the accommoda¬ 
tion of the enormous traffic upon this main 
western' artery out o*f London, The Plane 
trees are pruned in pyramidal shape, and 
limited to a certain height j circumstances 
of necessity determine that* they are and 
must remain cockney trees*, until we reach 
that state of advanced civilisation when 
roads and boulevards will be made suffi¬ 
ciently wide to accommodate the* traffic and 
also leave room for avenue® of trees that* will 
afford shade to the pedestrian®. Some of 
the narrower streets in the parish *of Chis¬ 
wick are* less fortunate, and the Plane trees 
are pruned or cut to dumpy, round-headed 
specimens that are all too crowded in 
summer for the proper exposure of them 
foliage to light. Clearly, in such ca*se*s, an 
error, in judgment has been committed in 
planting such trees‘where* space prevents any¬ 
thing like the natural development* peculiar 
to the trees. 
To revert to the trees at Worthing, some 
of them *are described as being cut* off level 
at the top. Nature-study cannot yet* have 
made a great advance in that* locality. Mr. 
Simpson* says ithe trees are* too* thickly 
planted, and necessitate the removal o*f ©very 
other one, and the careful thinning out of the 
remainder (the branches', we presume). He 
further ask® what shape they are eventually 
to be, so that this is no case of mere for¬ 
mality, but an entire lack of an object in 
view in the handling of saw and secateur. 
Furthermore, the trees have not -been planted 
at any regular distance apart, s*o* that they 
must be informally informal to *a degree un¬ 
known to the average London tree. Nor 
