Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-06-02

SHADE TREEs.-Nothing add more to the
beauty of place than reasonable amount of
well kept shade trees. Indeed for the outlay
of labor and money there is nothing that gives
SO great returns in the way Of attractiveness
and comfort.
Our own village is abundantly blessed with
trees, but 1t is perfectly plain to any one that
they are not all properly cared for
For instance there are some yards and dwell
lngs that are almost completely shaded by tall
wide spreading -shaped locusts, and others
where fruit and shade trees are so thickly
Mingled that they all seem struggling to get
highest, to obtain the air and sunshine. This is
all wrong, trees should never shade the dwell
ling house or the yard, so that the grass cannot
grow thick and strong. When the grass grows
up slender and feeble as it does in the shade,
human beings cannot thrive, the children will
be feeble and scrofuous like the children of the
poor, who are raised in the dark and noisome
cellars of our large cities.
The noHious gases, and unhealthy vapors
which float in the air will be absorbed or turned
aside by well arranged shade trees. but will also
be hindercd from rising up and leaving if the
trees overshadow the premises.
| Many densey shaded dwellings, have been
noted for an unusual amount Of sickness. The
same thing was noticed repeatedly in the army.
When regiments camped in thick woods, the
men were most liable to diseases.
The writer of this articl le has often seen cases
when the sickness and mortality were constant
ly increasing in regiments were thus camped, and
found it to abate almost entirely when the
troops were on the march
Shade trees should be planted at a respecta-
bic distance from the house and kept well prun-
ed. The same amount offoliage growing COM
pactly together with do much better in keep
ing out the cold winds or unhealthy vapors
besides being vastly more pleasing to the eye.
| 1t is a very mistaken idea that trees should be
allowed to growhatuFaily and without pruning
and more erroneous still that all the old-ill-
shaped, scraggly trees should be permitted to
mar the beauty and shut out the air and sun
shine from our homes A mistaken sentimen-
tality, engendered by the old song of "Wood-
man spare that tree, has numbered many of
our village and country residences with useless
and unsightly trees. CON-
The true doctrine is ''sparo only the useful,
the beautiful, and those halowed by cherished
mem0IieS .
We may add thought or two to the above,
with special direction. Some of our public
grounds, need attention, in the way of pruning
and dressing up. We have in our eye the north
green The labor and judicous care of starting so
successfully spot of so much growing beauty
should not be suffered to out grow that care,
The number Of trees viii of course make, in a
short time, dense shade but this in our opion-
on will not be so Objectionable if that density
is by free pruning carried well up. A majority
of the trees, will bear, and indeed require fur
ther cutting away 1t is Of course understood
that the main limbs are not to undergo this pro-
cess, but each tree should be trimmed closely
up to those main branches, and 1t should be
done before such cutting away becomes the
more Objectionable from their size, and now,
while growing most vigorously, is the time for
the work, when the wounds will the sooner
heal, Messrs oflicsrs-villsge fathers-shall il
not be done And while you have your hand
in, don't give that cumberer of the main walk,
the go by Let it be removed at once, and give
room for the growth of the young trees on
either side that arc now being dwarfed by its
overshadowing influence. Then, grave and
reverand seigniors, trim up the walks, and pass
an ordnance imposing penalty for walking
upon the grass, and warn the peop'e of such
penalty, by standing notices, as in other cor
porations and then let us see il there is mulisl-
ness enough to continue the barbarous practice.
When these things shall have been attended TO,
! some other suggestions. may perhans follow