Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-08-28
miscellaneous.
Shade Trees in Cities.

ing, is one Of the last articles he ever wrote.
'"Down with the Ailanthus!" is the cry we
hear on all sides, town aud country now that
this "tree of heaven," las the catalogues
used aIluringy to call ii,) has penetrated all
pnrts of the Union AMI begins to show its
true character. Down with the Aunthus!
Its blossoms smell so disagrecahly that my
family arc mnde III by it," snys an old resi-.
dent on one OF the squares in New York,
where il is tho only shude for fifty contiguous
houses. awe must positively go to New
port, pnpa, TO escape these horrible Allan
thuses," exclaim numberless young ladies,
who find that even their best Jean Maria
Fdrlnd affords 10 permanent relief, since
their front parlours have become su celes-
TALLY embowercd. "The vile tree comes up
oil over my garden" say fifty owners of sub
urban lots who have ioolishly been tempted
into bordering the outside OF their "yards"
with it-having been told that il grows so
surprising fast" alt has ruined my lawn
for fifty feet all round each tree" say the
country gentlemen, who seduced by the
oriental beauty ofiis foliage, have also been
busy for years dotting il in open places, here
and there, in their pleasure grounds. In
some of the cities souihwnrd, the authorities
taking the matter more seriously have voted
NiS tbtnb bhNilldl VI illt NlOlt SItGItS, ulltl
and the Herods who WELD the bcsom of syl-
van destruction, have probably niade clean
sweep of the first born of celesliuls, in more
towns than one south ofNlason's aud Dixon's
line, this season.
Although we think there is picturesque
ness in the free and luXuriant foliage of the
Allanihus, we shall see its downfall without
u word TO save it. We look upon il as an
usurper in rather bad odour at home, which
has come over TO this land of liberty, under
the gurb of utility" to make foul the air, with
its pestilent breath, aud devour III soil, with
its intermcddling roos-a. tree that has the
fair outside aud the trcacherous heart of the
Asiatics, and that has played us so many
tricks that We find we have caught Tartar
which it requires something more than
Chinese wall TO coninc within limits.
Down with the Ailunlhus therefore, we
cry with the populace. But we have reasons
besides theirs, and now that tho fuyorile has
falen out of favor with the soyereigus, we
may take the opportunity to preach funeral
sermon over its remains, that shall not like
so inuny funeral sermons, be bnih of obi
vion-waters 10 wash out all memory of lis
vices. For il the Tartar is not laid violent
hands upon, and kept under close watch,
even after the spirit has gone out of the old
trunk, and the coroner is satisfied that hc
has come 10 a violent end-lo, we shall have
him upon us tenfold in the shape of suckers
innumerable--litle Turtars that will beget Il
new dynasty, aud Overrun our grounds nId
gardens again, without mercy.
The vices of the Allanihus-iho incurahle
vices ofthe by gune iayorite-then, are two
fold. In the first place il smells horribly, both
in leafand dllower-and instead of sweetening
and purifying the air, fills il with n heavy,
sckening odourt in the second place it
suckers aboninabIy, and thereby o,erruus,
npproprintes and reduces to brggnry, all the
soil of every open piece Of ground where it
is planted. These are the notifications
which every body feels sooner or later, who
has been seduccd by the luxuriant ouisirctcll-
ed welcome of its smooth round arms, aud
the waving and heckoning of It's graceful
plumes, into giving it a place in their home
circle. For few years, while the tree j:
growing, it has, TO he sure, u fair and spacious
look. You feel almost, us you look at ia
round trunk shooting up as straight, and al
most as fast as rocket, crowned by such
luxuriant tuit OF verdure, that you have got {
young palm tree before your door, that cnl
whisper tales TO you in the evening of thn
"Flowery Country" from whence you hnv,
borrowed it., aud you swear 10 stand by
against all slanderous nspersons. But, alas
you are greener in your experience than tht
Tartar in his leaves. A few years pass by
the sapling becomes n tree-its blossoms I'll
the air with something that looks like curry
pow der, and smells like the plague. Yot
shut down the windows 10 keep out the I'M
baimy June mir, if you live in Town, aud in
variaby give n wide berth to the hcdrenL
avenue, you belong 10 the country.
But we confess, openly, thnt our browning
10
who has played lis so falsely, Is patriot
objection. It is that he has drawn away on
attention from our own more noble nnliv
American trees, TO waste il on this mist rnbl
pigtnil of an lndianan. What should W
think of the Italians, If they should lorswea
their own orange trees and fgs,pomegrannte
and citrons, aud plant their streets aud gar
dens with the poison sumac tree of OH
swamps? Aud what must an European
nrborculturist think, who travels in America
delighted and aslonished at the beauty of on
varied aud exhausless forests-the richest il
the temperate zone--lo see that we neithe
value nor plant them, but lill our lawns un
avenues with the cast-off nuisances Of th
gardens o. Asia aud Europe.
Aud while in the vein, we would includ
In the same category another less ihshiony
ble, hut still much pGtted foreigner that la
settled among us with good letter of oredi
but who deserves not his success. We mea
the Abele,or Silver Poplar, There is plei
SAINT Aulier in his silyer-lined leaves bl
when the timber is foot thick you shall fin,
the mir unpleasanIly filed every spring vii
the fno, white down which flies from Il
blossom, while the suckers which are throw
up from the roots of old .4belts are pest
all grounds and gardens, even worse la
those of the Ailuuihus Down with tI
Aheles
oh, that our tree planters, aud they are a
army of hundreds OF thousands in this coul
iry-ever increasing with the growth Of goo
tasie-oh! that they knew aud could unde
stand the SURPRISING beauty orour naiiue shat
trees. More than forty species OF Oak ~
there In Nnrfh Americn lErnnt Rrirnin L..