Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-26

The love of trees Is q universal sentiment.
Watcher in the primeyal forest or in the streets
and Yards of town, the different varieties, with
their peculiar foliage, their infinite diveTsties
~ form, attract the eve and command the adj
mIration- The number and disposition of trees
and shrubs upon any country place or in a city
or village. form am unerring indication of the
taste Of the owners or inhabitants. The charm
cf an old place over a new one l. its trees. more
than any thing else; and nothing conduces more
TO the hOme>iekness OF the New Englander
tTan~pt2nted to the western prairie- than the
absence Of the trees which form 30 important a
Part OF the landscape with which he was IA
miliaT in youth.
But much as this love for trees and taste in
their PLANTING and training is 20 be commended
there j. n possibility of having too much of a
good thing. Few persons realize a. they ought,
that the axe and the saw and the pruning shears
should come into play directly after planting,
and be continually and vigorously used. Good
taste demands this, and what Is more important
still. the preservation of the health of a family
or community requires IL. In all planting of
trees II i a universal fault that they are
put ia too thlckly- The street or yard Is
bare. and one object Is to F.make a show" as
soon possible. Consequently two or three
times a. many young trees are set out
they are neglected, and though they grow i'm
peTceptibly they do grow ..while We are sleep
ing as , vel as when We are awake, and before
one would think il possible there is a thicket
where there ought to be only a tree. Even then
IN many eases the owners refuse to cut them
down. one comes to have q sort of fondness for
atrCc he has planted and seen every day for years
and hates TO lay the axe at its roots; and il the
man Of the house makes up his mind that the
sacrifice Is necessary and wise. quite often the
women of the household will make a point of
preventing il by their sentimental pleadings
and tears, though they may be growing paler
and weaker day by day, and though their chill
drcn may be growing up puny and white like
potato sprouts in a cellar, all on account of the
trees they refuse to have removed.
This affection for trees. especially those that
surround ones home, which perhaps ones own
hand has planted, is very creditable, and to be
encouraged To a reasonable degree; but the un-
reasonable cultivation and qualification of ii is
working great harm in many instances. The
old places in New England are, very many of
Them getting to he too shady for beauty or
Tor health There are streets in Springfield
which The sun of the longest and cleareSt days
at July cannot penetrate; and houses where
the sun Is the most unfreduent of guests in
The living rooms. And what Is true of Spring.
held J. true to a greater extent of many
Other Places. We all know of people who are
iining away, sick of no apparent disease, but
clearly destined for early graves. and all for no
reason but they will persist in living in the shade
instead of the sunlight and air that God made
Tor them, In every old town o. New England
NAV H. found one or more ancient hOnses stu
attu ii the depths OF what has come to be
forest. from which the old stock. healthy enough
oIc or TWO generations ago, has all dled out or
been saved from death only by emigration; and
yet probably no one could have convinced the
inmates, as one after another they went into a
decline, that they were killing Themselves by
living III the shade
- NtlItE III lit anu home, whose name Is
rot given. but who is vOuehed for by the editor
Of that paper as a distinguished physician, SAYS
that this living in shaded houses; upon shaded
streets Is one of the principal causes of that in
SldiouS disease, consumption; and other high
mC dical authorities have made the same state
meUt before. But this is not all. In a damp
vet summer Ike the present, the effects OF too
much shade are painfully apparent in the in
GUCcment of other diseases peculiar 10 the sea-
SOD, and If those affected do not actually have
any dis 2>e, they are never entirely well, and
ell;
vacation and getting decided change OF air.
IL i a wonder TO all thinking persons that this
matter of too much shade is not more generally
considered NJ house should be so shaded by
trees. or otherwise, that the sun, with all its
brightness and warmth shall not strike into the
living and slees ing rooms several hours each
cav During the few hot weeks OF summer its
direct RAYS can be excludedby blinds or curtains,
~ desired. though even then the fact that il
strikes the house Il OF great benefit in sanitary
TOiEt Of view; but for most months OF the year.
AZ this climate, the sun should be freely
admitted and welcomed. The Garnet and
furniture will be faded a little more
TaIidly. To be sure, but il is better to have
these faded than 10 become a family of inyalCs
In all planting of trees in private grounds
the preservation Of the suns influence upon the
house should be carefully provided for By plant
ing Tie trees at distance; and when there is
only small yard the smaller trees and shrubs
alone should be used for the qualification of
ore taste in arborculture. As for shade trees
IN the streets. We do not see why they should not
lie under the control Of the board of health as
Certainly they are often more obnoxious t. The
public health. We know OF streets in SPRING
held where IL would be public blessing to have
hall or twO-thiris Of the trees taken out. Will
not the board of health look over the ground
amt recommend it?-SPriagkeid Republicans.