Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-08-28

who, on the contrary. that has planted shadc-
trees Mt all. in the United States, for the last
fifteen years, has not planted either Allan
thuses or hbelc Poplurs? We should liketo
see that discreet, sagncious individual, who
has escaped tho natonnl ecstasy for foreign
suckers. ii he can be iaund he is nore de-
serving gold medal from our horticultural
societies than the grower of the most NAM
moth pumpkin, or elephnninc beet that will
garnlsh the cornucopia of Pomona for 1882.
In this confession of our sins Of commits
sion in planting filthy suckers, and omission
in not planting clean natyes-wc must lay
part of the burden ut the door of the nursery
men. III has been found convenient prhc-
tice--this shifting the responsibility
since the first trouble about trees in the gar
den of Eden,l
"Woll then, if the nurserymen rW raise
Ailautms aud Abeles by the thousands, ire
ply the planting communityl aud, telling us
nothing about pesllenlial odors aud suckers,
tell us u great deal about rapid growth, inn
mediate effect, beauty of foliage, rare foreign
trees and the like, it is not surprising that
we plant what turn out, after twenty years
trial, to bc nuisanccs instead OF embllisli-
mcuts. Ii is the business of the nursery men
TO supply planters with the best trees. IL
they supply us with the worst, who sins tue
most, the buyer or the seller of such stuflf'
Softly, goods friends. II is the business of
nurserymen to make profit 10y raising trees.
II You will pay just as much for poor tree
that can be raised in two years from a sucker,
as n valuable tree that requires four or five
years, do you wonder that the uurserymen
will raise aud sell you Ainntliuses instead OF
Oaks. 1t is the business (duiy at least) of
the plnnter,to know wlInt he is about to plant,
and though there nre ninny honest traders, il
is a good maxim that the Turks have, ask
no one in the bazaar to praise his own goods
To the eye OF the nurScrymen,a crop of ALI
antluses and Abelcs is "a pasture IN the val
ley of sweet waters But go To an old hnme-
stead where they have become natnraliZed,
and you will Gnd tfft there is bitter alter-
taste about the experience of the unfortunate
posscssor ofthese sylvan treasures ola lar-oif
country The planting intelligence must,
therefore, increase five would iil our ground
and slIndc our streets with really valuable,
ornamental trees. The nurserymen will nat.
urnlly raise what is in demand, aud ihut ten
customers offer, in five years, for the Oycrcup
Oak, while fifty come, of II day, Tor the Alans
thus-ihe latter will be cultivated us u unit
ter of course.
The question Immediately arises, what
shall we Use instead of the condemned trees:
What especially shall we use in the streets Of
cities? Alnny-nny the minority of shade
trces--clean aud beautiful in the country
are so infested with worms and insects in
towns us to he worse than useless. The
! Sycamore has failed, the Linden is dcvoured,
the Elm is prayed upon by insects. We
! have rushed into the arms OF the Tartar,
partly ont Of fright, TO escape the armies of
catcrpillers aud cnnkerworriIs that have taken
| possession of better trees!
Take refuge, friends in the american pia-
pie. Clean, sweet, cool and outrageous, are
the Naples; and, much vnunted as Allan
thuscs aud Poplars are, for their lightning
growth take oiir word for il that it is only n
good 20 off at the start. A Maple at twenty
years, or even at ten, it the soil is favorable,
will be much tho finer aud lnrger tree. No
tree tInnSplants more readily, none ndupts
itself more easily to the soil than the Maple.
For light soils, and the milder parts of the
Union, say tho Middle aud Western Stntes,
the Silver Maple, with dropping branches,
is at once the hest aud the most graceful OF
street trees. For the North aud East, the
Soit Maple and tile Sugar Maple. II any
ono wishes 10 know the glory aud beauty of
the Sugar Maple, as n street tree, let him
make pilgrimage to Stockbridge, in Mnssn-
chusets. II he desires 10 study the Silver
Maple, there is no better school than Bnrl
ington, N. J. These are two towns almost
wholly planted with these American trees,
the sylvan ndouIings of which any nulve
may well be proud. The inhabitants neither
have to abandon their front rooms from the
SMELL" nor lose the use of their back yards
by "Ihe suckers" Aud whoever plants
either OF these three nuples may feel sure
that he is earning the thanks instead of the
rcproaclIes of posterity.
The most beautiful aud stately of all trees
for an avenue--and especially for an avenue
street in town--is un American tree that one
rarely sees planted in Americat t-never, tha,
we remember, in amy public street. We
mean the Tulip Tree, or Liriodendron.-
Whit can he more beautiful than its trunk
finely proportioned, aud smooth as Grecian
: column? What can be more artistic than
lis leaf, cut like an Orahesque in Moorish
palace--whnt more clean and lustrous than
lis tufts Of foiage-dark-grcen aud rich us
deepest emernld? What more lily-like and
spccous than its hlossons-golden and
|. bronze shaded? and what laircr and more
queeuly than It's whole figure stately aud re-.
, gal us that of Zenohia? For park tree, tc
spread on every side, il is unriyalled grow
ing a hundred aud thirty feet high,nn spread
: ing into the finest symmetry Of outline.t Fo
street tree, its colunnar stem, beautiu
/, either with or without branches- with lov
4 head or high head-iolinge over the secon,
: story or under it's precisely what is mos
! needed. A very spreading tree, like III,
!, Elm, is always somewhat out of place il
. town, because its natural habit is 10 eXtent
itself lateIaIIy. A tree, with the habit of III,
U Tulip, liits itself into the finest pyramids O
D iolingG, exactly suited TO the usual width o
D town streets, and thus embellishes aud shade
G without darkening and encumhering them
Besides this, the foliage of the Tulip tree i
D us clean and fresh at all times, as the bonne
+, Of iair young quakeress, and no insec
! mars the purity Of its rich foliage,
: *We may as well add, for the benefit of tn
: novice, the advice to shun all trees that are uni