Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1915 — PAYS TO SAVE THE TREES [ARTICLE]

PAYS TO SAVE THE TREES

They Add to Attractiveness and Comfort of Home, Is Declaration of Writer. It is a rare case when we cannot give the following admonition, says a writer in the Minneapolis Journal. Save all the trees possible on your land. If a tree insists on standing in the way when you are building a road, let your road take a way around. Even a tree left standing at the side of a road or in the sidewalk may add pieturesqueness to the land, which in itself in an attraction to buyers. If the land bordering the road in a residential tract Is thickly wooded, trees may not be needed in the planting strip. Indeed, leaving all planting out of the street tends materially to widening its - appearance. It Is unusually, however, a good idea to plan for street trees. Their presence-makes for coolness and comfort and the general attractiveness of the region. Forty feet apart is the best distance for street trees and a safe one to follow. Planting at closer distance gives the trees scant room for mature development. It is also more expensive for the real estate man. Trees may be planted opposite each other, if the distance between trees on opposite sides of the street is forty feet. Should the distance be less, the trees had best be “staggered”—that is, placed alternately.