Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1915 — Home Town Helps [ARTICLE]

Home Town Helps

SEES ADVANTAGE OF TREES Alabama City la Going About the Work of Beautifying In a Scientific Manner. One of the attractive features of Birmingham is found in its trees. Many years ago arboriculture received the attention of the authorities in certain of the northern cities. Ornamental trees for parks aqd streets were planted and nurtured under men trained both in arboriculture and landscape engineering. The results have been manifold, and the outlay of money was nothing when compared with the benefits obtained. But in the South arboriculture has been appraised at its true value only in recent years. Some of the old southern cities were famed for their wide-sweeping oaks and elms, but nature had been bountiful in providing those things that were beautiful. Nevertheless, the man who has made a study of trees in relation to the city beautiful idea has work to do in the umbrageous avenues even of stately old towns like Tuscaloosa and Savannah. In the larger cities and especially those without trees of primeval growth the arboriculturist has become a necessity. Before science was so generally In vogue Birmingham was fortunate in making a good start in tree planting, but we can now do better. The city commission has turned over the arboricultural side of Birmingham’s activities to the engineering department. Maury Nicholson, chief assistant to Engineer Kendrick, acts as the superintendent of parks and playgrounds and that position brings him directly in charge of tree planting. Mr. Nicholson 1b not only thoroughly equipped for this work, but he is an enthusiast. Every man and every woman in Birmingham who desires to add to the attractiveness of the city by planting trees will always have a patient and a sympathetic hearing from him.—Birmingham Age-Herald.