The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-10-26
cur,osities Of Tree Planting.

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. A proverb Of Northwest India declares
that three things make man to be truly
q man-to have a son born to him, to. dig
a well and to plant tree: Il Is impossl-
the misery of o treeless country, Europe
has no natural deficiency of trees hence,
bridge building took the place OF tho old
Aryan tree planting as an act OF piety to
God and of duty to the future, in the coun-
sells of the early Christian teachers of the
European nations. Both in East and West,
trees were no doubt the first temples, and
the planting of groves was the primitive
form OF church building. Abraham, we are
told, planted grove in Beersheba, to com
memorate his solemn covenant, put among
his descendants it became In time the mark
of q pious ruler to " cut down the groves "
as the seats of pagan worship; the mark OF
a careless ruler to leave them untouched
and the mark of an impions ruler 70 pians
and dedicate new groves. 1t Is nor marc
came the FIRST temple. Men were no doubt
impressed by the hoary age OF trees COM
pared with the short life of man. A tree
/ was often the centre around wnicn eaGn
succeeding generation deposited It's tradi,
with the living, and living with the nm
born. The cool, grateful shade OF trees
was natural t, pc Of the graciousness the
worshipers ught fer from the powers they
worshiped-especially in Eastern lands
where shadow is so precious and 90 e3ceRI
of their foliage was a national symbol OF
human life. The darkness and density OF
| the grove we must add, hid the obscenfties
aud cruelties which belonged to the darker
developments of heather worship.
. When an Englishman who has been long
! absent from his fatherland, again catches
his first glimpse of its road sides and fields
through The windows of railway carriage,
perhaps nothing strikes him SO forcibly as
the picturesqueness and the sparseness OF
the trees. He has seen trees In level lands
| stretching for miles like thin diaphanous
wall Ii, diIili uniformity now he sees them
4 merely dotted here and there upon tne
landscape, but each tree 10 more or less OF
, o picture in itself. Or he has seen In noun.
, tainlands every spot OF availeple eattn
seized upon to supply life to cherryTtree,
{ fruit-trees everywhere lining the roads and
Aelds, instead Of hedges, and probably
q wondered If English lads could pass to ana
Z fro every day under luscious cherries OF
pears aud leave them untasted; now ne see
I groups, which look as if they had planted
e themselves out Of within or playfulness JUS
{ where they pleased, not one of which cal
J. bring any money to Its proprietor excep
by its destruction. Give German or Swiss
K | BGuer the tenancy Of an EDgi1sn 1arna, an,
.
an orch ard ont Of the mere unused corner
~ and slices of land he would almost certain.
ID find in its fields and along it's boundary
o lines. must leave it to adopts to deter
Is mine whether he would show hi@seH
IA GOOD or bad agricultuIist by his activity.
Tree planting has, in fact, retained l
= Germany longer than elsewhere somethlp
In of its cult character, binding together re
Ieiop. nation, and family. In the Vosge
W cen, the old German farmers were ere h ooro a.
:" lowed to marry until they had done SONS e
lie thing for the future good OF the tribe D
r nlanting a stated number of walnut-tree
The asking of distinguished guest
ar plant a tree, is pleasant way OF conn men
le Grating his visit. We do not know that
- it much used here. In 1852 the OratoFi .
-, Mary's, Sydenham, by Prince Massimo an
". Cardinal Wiseman, each Of whom left o.
~ hind him the record of his visit In trs
Of his own planting. According to u
of German fancy, no tree planted as mem
he rial will grow and flourish unless 1t has
motto given it at the time of its pantin
? In different parts of our country We ma
,at come across trees-at Sherwood, indee
re- across entire woods-planted to commem
rate national events. But our Engll,
re-. tree. planting have long been MAINLY u
in work of individuals, and not of commun
nd ties. A tree planted in Lord Roilo's ga
,fe den at Duncrub, to commemorate the unlt
we of England and Scotland in Ivy, Il
he eighty feet high, and eIghteen Ieet III sh sS
re, was blown down in the gale of March, leo
ed The greatest day of commemorative tire
plaptng ever KNOW III Ene g. 1Ss T Rsst pr
rs tion' May 90, 1861. The letters from d
." ferent towns in the Mercuri"s Pubiieus a.
Ter the Kings Intelligencer of that year, conta
tie accounts of such paintings. Many OF thet
* however, were, like the Trees OF Ltoer'
at planted only to last long the ie sSt
a the "own correspondent" of the peri
vs. writes: "the number of trees that We
planted in the town was 80 great that
It ~ perfectly resembIed an artificial fore
The whole town lay under SO absolute
disguise that the inhs sd h,sa knew
memorative planting in the Sherwo
,olt aistricts marks victories gained by {
famous admirals. Lord Newark PLAN
the partly fr, and called it Howe's Grove,
nds honor of Earl Howe's great victory,
plantation of fifteen acres aSJoi ID
Thoresby Park, is called after Earl st; V
ack cent aud twelve acres on the north bot