Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1915 — HOME TOWN HELPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOME TOWN HELPS

TREES PLANTED TOO THICKLY Mistake Made by Many People Who Set Out the Desirable Bhade for the Summer Days. A week ago the writer saw a street where trees had just been planted but twenty-five feet apart. There is no tree large enough for street use that should be planted so thickly. Could every other one be taken out at the end of ten years from planting, no fault could be found with the scheme. At a score of years after planting, pepper trees are close enough at 60 feet apart. For the first ten years they could well be maintained at 30 feet apart; but wl>o will cut away the offending alternates when the time Is ripe? Unfortunately, all are left, to form a solid wall of green on each side of the street so that no glimpse of anything may be seen outside this narrow and uninteresting channel dubbed, usually, “a beautiful avenue of living green,” a serious misnomer. Each tree should be silhouetted against the sky so that its individuality may be seen, its beauty of outline, grace of carriage, form and color of foliage and flower, and also that a clear view may be had of both the near and the distant landscape. Let in the glorious sunshine and air; also let them out, and have landscape views as free. Neither fence in any. thing or fence out anything. The trees may with propriety be made to appropriate their Just share of the territory and the view, but no more. There should be other rights and other places for other objects.—Los Angeles Times.