The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-08-18

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Take refuge, friends. in the Aa1;cda mspsr.,
Clean, sweet, cool, and outrageous, are the ma
pies; and, much vaunted a. ailan'hufes and pop.
lars are. for their lightning growth, take our word
for il, that it 10 only good go of at the start.
10 favorable, will be much the finer and larger
tree. No tree transplants more readily, none
adapts itself casily to the soil than the maple
say the Middle and Western statss, the silOn ma
pls with dropping branches 10 at once the best and
the most graceful Of street trees. For the North
and East, the soft maple and the sugar maple, II
any one wishes to know the glory and beauty Of
pilgrimage to Stockbridge, In Massachusetts. II
he desires 10 study the silver maple, there Is no
better school than Burlington, New Jersey. These
are two towns almost wholly planted with these
any "native'' may well be proud. The inhabi-
tants neither have to abandon their front rooms
from .sthe SMELL" nor~lose the use Of their back
yards By !" the suckers" And whoever plants
10 earning the thanks, instead Of the reproaches OF
posterity. -
The most beautiful and stately of all trees for an
avenue--and especially for an avenue street in
town-is an American tree that one rarely sees
planted in America*-ncver, that we remember, in
any public street. We mean the tulip tree, or
iriodendron. What can be more beautiful than
Gsesn Be 'Ga 1s
than its leaf-cut like an arabesque in a Moorish
palace? What more clean and lustrous than its
tufts Of foIiage-dark green, and rich as deepest
its bIossoms-golden and bronze shaded And
whatfairer and more queenly than its whoiehgure-
stately and regal as that OF Zenobia! For park
tree, to spread on every side, il is unrivalled,
s"es. .ym nm trey Of esune Ros Street tree,
in coiumnnr stem, beautiful either with or with
out branches, with low head or high head. foil
age the second story pr under H. is precisely
what 10 most needed. very spreading tree, like
the elm. 10 always somewhat out Of place in town,
because its natural habit is to extend itself lateral
~. tree, with the habit of the tulip, lifts itself
into the finest pyramids of foliage, exactly suited
to the usual width of town streets, and thus EN-.
beishes and shades without darkenipg and en-
numbering them. Besides this, the foliage of the
tulip tree is clean and fresh at all times as the
bonnet Of fair young Quakeress, and no inject
mara the purity of it's rich foliage.
We know very well that the tulip tree 10 con.
sidered difficult to transplant. 1t is, the gardeners
will tell you, much easier to plant ailanthuses, or,
if you prefer, NAPLES. Exactly, 80 it is easier to
walk than to dance; but as all people who wish to
be graceful in their gait learn to dance, Gf they
can get an opportunity so all planters who wish
peculiarly elegant tree will learn how to plant
the iIiodendron. In the first place, the soil must
be light and rich-better than is at all necessary
Tor the naples; and if it cannot be made light and
rich, then the planter must copfne himself to
naples: Next, the tree must be transplanted just
about the time of commencing its growth in the
spring, and the roots must be cut as little as pos
sible, and not suffered 10 get dry till replanted.
There is one point which, il attended to as it is
in nurseries abroad would render the tulip tree as
easily transplanted as a maple or poplar. We
mean The practice Of cutting round the tree every
year, in the nursery, till it 10 removed. This de.
velops ball of fbres, and prepares the tree for
the removal that it feels no shock at all Nurse.
rymen could we'll afford to grow tulip trees to the
sizc suitable for street planting, and have them
twice cut or removed beforehand, 60 as to enable
them to warrant their growth in any good soil, for
dollar q piece. (And we believe the average
price at which the Thousands of noisome nilanthus
that now nfest our streets have been cold is above
a dolar.) No buyer pays 30 much and go willing
iy cs the citizen who has only one lot front; and
five dollars each has been no uncommon price in
New York for "trees OF heaven"
After our nurserymen have pTacticed awhile
this preparation of the tulip rees for the streets by
previous removals, they will gradually find de-
Inand for the finer oaks, beeohes and other trees
now considered difficult to transplant for the same
cause, and about which there is 10 difficulty at all,
il this precaution is taken. Anybody can catch
&" suckers" in a still pond, but q trout must be
tickled with dainty bait. Yet true sportsmen 90
not, for this reason, prefer angling with wotins
about the margin of stagnant pools, when they
can whip the gold .spangied beauties out Of swift
streams with little skill and preparation; and we
trust that in future no true lover Of trees will plant
"suckers" to torment his future days and nights,
when he may, with little more pains, bavo the
satisfaction of enjoying the shade Of the freshest
and comeliest of American f,rest trees
Though there are grand avenues Of them in
the royal parks of Germany, rails ed from Ameri
can seeds.
At Wake field, the fine country-seat OF the
Fisher family, near Philadelphia, are several tulip
trees on the lawn, over one hundred feet high, and
three to six feet in diameter,
In many continental nurseries. this annual
preparation in the nursery takes place until fruit
slightest injury to the crop of the same year.
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