Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1916 — Trees for the Streets. [ARTICLE]

Trees for the Streets.

The city forestry department of Cleveland, 0., plans the setting out of about 5,900 tfees, chiefly in the streets, during the autumn. The use to be made of them has been definitely decided. It is a public improvement which is especially welcome after much extremely hot weather, says the Cleveland Leader. Shaded streets plead their own cause when the temperature is not far below blood heat or even a little higher, at the worst hours of the day. And in a long drought, when it is almost impossible to keep lawns green and flowers bloomirig, healthy trees, fairly treated, resist the adverse weather conditions better than any other verdure and do more than their share to save the streets of cities from the dreariness of masonry unbroken by nature’s fresh tints and unfailing life. Cleveland is not the “Forest City" in the sense that it used to be, but there are still hundreds of thousands of trees Inside the municipal limits and many of them are fine specimens of their kind. All that can reasonably be done to improve these conditions and make the streets still more shady and attractive ought to be the constant aim and care of the city government and of public-spirited citizens, also.