Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1920 — Female Trees. [ARTICLE]

Female Trees.

After nearly twenty-five years of argument and discussion about the abatement of the cotton nuisance, thecity' commission Of Albuquerque, New Mexico, has ordered the cutting down of all female or cotton-bearing cottonwood trees within the city limits. A large proportion of the shade trees of many western cities are cottonwoods, writes Aldo Leopold in the American Forestry Magazine of Wash ington. The individual trees are of two sexes and the female trees bear annually a most prolific crop of cotton, which acts as a mechanical irritant to sufferers from hay fever, and which during the months of June and July litters the streets, screen doors and plastering with unsightly masses of soiled cotton.