The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-09-30
TREES OUT OF PLACE.


TREES OUT OF PLACE.
There are many such. Among these
are nearly ali trees planted in kitchen
garden. Cherry, and plum, and peach,
and standard pear trees are often set on
the outer border, or by the side of the
crosswalks. When small, they look
pretty, and do little harm; but soon
they stretch upward and spread out
ward, shading much ground devoted to
growing vegetables, and their roots,
ramifying far and wide, feed upon the.
rich food designed for other things
When such trees become large and hand
some, the owner feels reluctant to cut
them down; and so he lives on from
year to year, the trees, perhaps, running
to wood more than fruit, and his garden
being only moderately productive of
vegetables.
No trees of this sort should be allow
ed within garden. They should be
placed in Il yard or small orchard by
themselves, where's they an..receive sp-
propriate care. The only trees which
can be admittedi there are, perhaps,
few dwarf pears Ito be kept as true
dwarfs), and those should be set on bor-
ders, with walks between them and the
vegetable compartments They should
that they will not run abroad for forage.
OF course, currants, and gooseberries,
and raspberries may be set i'll similar
situations.
Trees are misplaced, too, when placed
just outside ones garden fence. Ii set
on anv other side than the north, they
obstruct the sunlight, and on every side
they do harm by the spread ofthelr hum
CRY roots. Superficial observers are
little aware how great this injury is. II
they should uncover the roots of these
trees (supposing them to be apple or
forest trecs), they would find them e1-
tending under the fence and into tho
garden for thirty or forty feet. They
run into the garden-soil the more greed
lily because of its richness.
If trees must be set within ten feet of
garden fence, the soil should be re-
moved every other year along the fence
line, and the roots cut off. 1t would
also be well to fill up the trench with
gravel or stiff clay. A better way still
would be to keep the trees from thirty
to forty feet away from the fence, for
they would answer the purpose of wind
breaks there about as we'll as nearer to
the garden.
1t is nearly impossible for fiower-beds
to flourish in the neighborhood of large
trees. Whoever has tried the expert
ment has found his borders full of the
fibrous roots of the trees, while his
choice plants live only miserable, sick
Iy life. In such a case, the question
must generally be, which of the two is
most desirable, the flowers or the trees
| and one or the other must be sacrificed.
The question, too, arises whether shrubs
of much size should be grown in beds
devoted to flowers.
Trees are out of place, also, when
| they overshadow the roof of q house, or
| darken its windows, or shut out fine
prospect. 1t is the testimony of emf
nent physicians that no small part of
the sickness of families is attributable
| to the shading of dwellings by over
| hanging trees and thick, clustering
vines. Our bodies need light, pure sun
| light, and a great deal of it and our
spirits need it none the less and he who
| shuts out this genial dispenser of health
| from his home makes q great mistake
| and does great wrong.
Many fine place is injured because
| the owner, having at first planted his
ground with large number of trees for
| immediate effect, afterwards neglects or
refuses to thin them out. They soon
crowd one another, they grow up lank
and spindling, destitute of beauty, and,
| by their dense shade, kill out the grass
and shrubs beneath them.
We know very well how hard it is to
cut down a tree which one has planted,
| and whose growth has been watched
over for many years. This feeling is
natural and to be respected, but it may
| be INDUCED to excess. The only ques-
ton should be, Is this or that tree in its
place? Would plant it there now, if
L were to set it out anew? If not, cut
il down let it no longer cumber the
| ground. When such resolution has
| once been formed, and the work fairly
| done, we come to respect our own pluck,
and to review the result with great sat-
/ isfaction.
1t deserves to be said that tree is
misplaced when set near to the fence of
a'neighbor's garden: for, by so doing, l
not only steal the richness of his land,
and oveTsnadow his vegetables and his
fruit trees, but, when my fruit trees
come into bearing, it becomes a standing
| controversy between us as to the own
ership of the fruit which hangs over
the Other side of the fence.
1t is common mistake to plant pines
| and spruce-firs near the margin of ones
| walks and carriage roads. Few persons
know or stop to inquire how large
those trees will spread as they grow to
maturity. They look pretty and docile
as they stand in the nursery rows, and
so the little beauties are set out within
arms length of the walk, where they
can easily be seen and petted. But in a
few years the young giants begin to
show their strength and large proper
tons. They throw out their arms in
lusty vigor, stretching from 10 to 20 feet
on either side, over walks and grass
plots, and adjoining shrubbery, darken-
ing windows and doorways, very much
to the surprise and confusion of the
planter. The result of the whole is
that either the trees must be cut down,
or their lower branches hewn off, which
latter operation is virtual destruction
of the trees. Any method of planting
which does not forecast the future
height and breadth of the trees, wheth-
er planted singly or in groups, is a mis-
take.
The foregoing hints do not exhaust
the subject, but we hope they will ena-
bic young planters to avoid some of the
mistakes into which their seniors have
fallen, and which it is now very hard
to remedy.-HeaTM and Home.
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