The Placer herald., 1872-11-09
TREE PLANTING.

We acknowledge the receipt Of circular
and letter on this subject from the State
Agricultural Society, containing the law and
an urgent appeal TO Supervisors to put it in
1868. AT that time we tired to have our
Supervisors make the proper order to carry
the law into effect, bat failed. The law
provides that the Supervisors Of any county
may, by an order, authorize any person own
ing land fronting OIL a street or road to plan;
shade or fruit trees along The same. The
order may designate the kinds Of trees to be
planted, ages, distances apart and from the
center of the road, etc. Persons designing
to comply with the order will plant the trees,
and file with the Board a statement Of the
place, kinds Of trees, etc, planted. The
trees must be protected and kept growing
for four wears, at the end of which time and
on proof Of the facts, the Board must pay,
ont of The County General Fund, one dollar
for each tree then in good growing condition.
The Etatc Agricultural Society suggest the
following as the most profitable varieties to
select from: Black and honey locust; black,
white and fruling mulberry; Usage orange;
native and Eastern black walnut; American
chestnut; European, American and cork
bark elm; The different kinds Of mape; the
tulip tree; Carolina, IombarJy, and silver
leaf poplar; different kinds Of ash; the apple,
pear, plum, cherry, almond and fig; Eucalyp-
ius, or Australian blue and red gum; Mon
terey pine, sugar pine, yellow pine, spruce
pine, Norway spruce, balsam fir, Scotch
pine European larch, Monterey cypress,
Italian cypress, California redwood, Cali
Iorui, laurel, and such other kinds as the
Bo ,rd may deem Of value for the county.
We call the especial attention Of our SUI er-
visors to his matter at their present term.
The Board can make the order general. only
specit, ing that The parties must own the lard
along side the road or street; must conhnc
themselves to tie margin Of the highway, to
scme onc or mere Of the above varieties OF
trees and must plant them n specified num-
Der Of feet apart. This order should be made
now, as the next regular term Of the Board
will be too late for successful tree planting
Ibis year. a little mental forecast may show
the mental eye of our Supervisors some mag
nicent tree-Iincd roads aud highways in tie
central and western portions of Placer a few
years hence, that will make them feel p,oud
TO have their names associated with the
passage Of such an order. Let The order be
passed as nothing can be done without it,
and then few far-seeing, public spirited
persons in each neghborhood will at first act
under it and their neghbors, seeing the beau-
ty and value added to the homesteads, will
follow their example until every road and
highway in the tilnberiess portions Of the
county will hc shaded avenue, and hedgcd
with the trees and foliage Of every temperate
cline in the civilized world. If the order is
pissed it will be money in the pocket OF every
man that acts under it, and tcufold the
money to the county, in the increased valae
of our farms and ho,nes,eads. If the Board
will make The order at this term we will
undertake IT, future numbers Of the HERALD
to show owners of improved lands the great
advantage both them and the county will
derive from Tie planting and cultivating of he
trees. aside from The beauty, and county and
individual pride that will follow it.