New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-17

of that" Fow-ry Country" from whence you have Dor
rowed IT, and you swear To stand BY assioss all alan
derous assertions But alas you sreener in your
experience than the Tartar In his leaves few years
pa" ~; the ssplirg becomes q tree-its blossoms I'LL
'he sr VIII something that looks like curry powder,
eng smells Ike the plague. You shu. down the widows
10 Keep out theanbsluy June air. Il you live In town.
arc Invariably give vide berth the keareAly avenue
! hyou belong to the country
But we confess ope ply, that orr GROWING objection
10 this petted Csinamsn Tartar Who has played US
falsely, 10 patriotic objection 1t 10 that he has
drawn away attention from our own more noble ns.
tive American trees, 70 on this mi,srab pig
tail OF sn ILdaman What should we think of the
Italians II they should forswesr their orange trees
and figs, pomegrsua,es and ctrons, and plant their
streets and gardens with The poison tree of our
s~smpsi And what must an European arborcuturiss
think who travels in America delighted aud astonshsd
at tie beauty Of varied snd exhausess foreststhe
riches Ia the temperate zoneto see that we neither
value nor plant them, but nj our Ia WIS ana svsnues
with the cest of nusances OF the gardens oil Asa and
Europe
And while In the vein we would include In the same
category another less fashionable but sul much petsd
foreigner that has settled among with good letter OF
credit but who deserves not his success. We mean
the Adele, Silver Poplar. There 10 pleasant fiuter
In bis silver lined esvesout when the timber u foot
thick, you shall hnd tee air uopleasanty filled every
spring with the ipe white down which files from the
blossom, while the suckers which thrown up from
the roots of old Abs pest TO all grounds and gar.
deps, even worse than those OF the Aisnthas. Down
with the Abeles
Oh that our ueeplsnsers and they are an army Of
hundreds of thousands 10 this country-,ver increasing
with the growth Of good taste ths! they knew and
could understand the surprising beauty Of Rdttce
shade trees. More than forty species of Oak thsre
In North America, (Grest Britain has only t~o species
France only fvc) and we are richer In Naples Elms
and Ashes than any country In the old world. Tulip
and Msgnoliss from America the exotic slo-
ries Of the princey grounds OF Europe. But Saving
always the prsiseworihy partially In New England for
our Ems and Naples who plants an American tree-in
America And who, on the contrary, that has planted
shade all In the United states for the last fifteen
yesis. has not planted either A,snthuses Adele
Poplsrs We should like 10 that discrest sagacous
Individual, who has escaped the national ecstscy for
foreign suckers Ii he can be found, he 10 more de-
setvir gold medal from horticultural societies
than the grower of the most mammoth pumpkin,
elephantine beet that will garnish the cornucopa OF
Pomona for 1852.
In this confession of slns Of commission In plant
Ing hthy suckers and omission in not planting clean
pstveswe must Law part OF the burden at the door Of
the nurserymtp. III has been ou venient prsc.
tce-,hs shifting the responsibility -ever since the irst
trouble about trees 10 the garden OF Eden.)
"Wel, then, If the nurserymen rM rase A.anthus
and Abets by the thSusands repIy Ihe planting COM
Duny) and telling nothing about pestilenud odors
and suckers tell great deal about rapid growth
immediate effect beauty of foliage, foreign trees
and The like is not surprising that plant turn
after twenty yesrs trial. 10 be nusances instead of
Embellishments. 1t s the business Of the nurserymsn
10 supply planters with the best trees II they supply
up with the wors who sins the most the buyer the
seller OF such stufif'
Softly, good friends nts the business OF nurSerymou
10 make profit by raising trees. Ii you will pay just
much for poor tree, that be raised In wo years
from sucker, valuable tree that requires four or
FIVE years, do you wonder that the nurserymen will
raise and sell you Asnthuses instead of Oaks Ills
the business duty at ieasO OF the planter 20 know
what he 10 about TO plant and though there many
honest traders 1t 10 good maxim that the Turks have
Ask one In the bazsar TO praise his own soods'
To the eyes OF the nursery crop OF Aisnthuses
and Abees "a pasture Ia the valley OF sweet xaters
But 60 to an old homestead where they have become
tate about the experience OF the unfortunate
of these sylvan treasures Of fsr.of country Toe
planting Intelligence must therefore, increase,
ID fill grounds and shade streets with really
valuable ornamental trees. The nurssrymen will nat
ursy aise hat Is In demand. aud ii but ten Custom
Offer in five years. for the Overcup Oak, while fifty
come. OF day, for the Auanthus-the latter will be
cultivated "a matter OF course.
The question Immediately arises what shall we use
instead OF the condemned trees What especially shall
use In the streets Ut cliies2 Mauy-nay the msjor
ty of sbsdeuees-clean and beautiful In the couotry-
are infested with worms and insects In to
be worse than useless The Sycamore has failed, the
Linden is devouIed, the II 10 preyed upon by insects
We rushed into the OF the Tartar partly out
Of fright 10 escape the mics Of caterpars and cank
tina. have taken possession Of better trees
Take refuge. friends, in the american Naples. Clean
sweet cool ano umo' eous, the Naples and much
vsunteo Asnthuses and Poplars are for their light
ming growth take word for II that IL IL only ,od
20 Of al the start Maple az twenty years at
tep, If the soil Is favorable will be much gne finer and
srgeI tree. No tree trsnspisnts readily, noae
sdsprs self easily 10 the soil than the Maple For
light soils and the milder parts vi the Union say the
Middle ard Western States the SHrGr Maple, with
dropping branches, 10 at once the best and the most
graceful OF street trees Eor the North and East the
81 II Maple and the Sugar Maple Ii any wishes
brow The glory and beauty IF the Sugar Maple, ss
street tree, let hm make pilgrimage TO 5eockbddgein
Massachusetts II be desires study tbe Silver Maple,
there /. no school than Burlington, N j. These
are two towns almost wholly planted With Ameri-
trees the sylvan adorriDgs OF which any "natye"
may well proud the Inhabitants neither have 10
abandon their front rooms from tho SMELL" nor ose
the of their back yards BY the suckers" And
whoever plants either Of these three naples may feel
that bo 10 earning the thanks tnstesd OF the re-
proaches OF pos'erity.
The most beautiful and stately of all trees for an
enue-sI especially for avenue street In owns
American nee that rarely secs planted Ia Amer
icsl-Leyer th.t we remember, Ia any gu 1lc street.
We mean The Tulip Tree, or Luiodenoron Wat can
be more beautiful than s uunk-nBey propOruioned |
and smooth Greclsn column What can be more
sristocrstic than It's leaf cut Ike arabesque 10
Moorish pslsce-what clean and lustrous lie
tut OF fOisge-dark green and rich as d-epest emer
aid What more lily like and specious than tts bios
soms-soden and bronze shad-df and what fatrer and
queenly thas Its whole figure, stately aud regal
that OF ZenObiai For park tree to spread every
side 1t 10 unrvaed, growing hundred and thirty feet
high, and spreading into the finest symmetry OF outline
For street tree, It's columnar stem, beautiful ether
with or without brancbes-wth low head a htgh
besd-olsgs the second story under ft-is pre-
cisely what 10 most needed. very spreading tree,
like the Elnn 10 always somewhat OF place Ia wn,
because Its natural habit 10 To extend itself literally
tree With ths hsbis of the Tulip lifo itsef into the
finest pyramids of foliage, exactly suited to the usual
vic III Of streets and thus embeshes and aha les
without darhening and encunberng taen. Besides
his the foliage OF the Tulip Tree Is clean and fresh
all times the bonnet Of fair young quakeeess and
ns insect mars the purity Of ts rich foliage.
We know very well thatthe Tulip tree Is considered
diff ut Il IT, the gardeners will tell you,
much ester to plant Aiisnshuses, or, If you prefer,
Naples Exactly so 1t easier TO walk than % d.nce-
but all people who wAh be graceful 10 their gait
learn to dance, III they get opportunity all
psIters who wsh peculiarly elegant tree, will learn
hew pant the rodendron. 10 the rst place the SOL
ust be highland rchoetter than IL ali necessary
for the Naples spo II !. cannot be made Ugh. and rich,
the the pisnter must eOnfne him Naples Next
the tr.e must be usnspanted just about ths time Of
CO umencDe It's growth In the spring. and the roots