Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-04-09
nplessed is The Tree PIanttssra.,.t

i tfssAs-t 49, ~ ~ III
The Madison Journal gives the TO-
lowing good advice to the tree plan
teri. IL is timely and sensible, and
We exhort every man who owns q
homo TO invest few d. ars In this
method of adjoining and improving
his property. Money cannot be ex-
pended to better advantage
eaThs bright trim yards, with aowsrs decked,
And sidewalks, sun and shadow fecksd."
The sung of the shade tree seller
is heard in the lind. He wants to
ornament our streets, and line his
pockets. He is not so particular as
he might be about tho future welfare
of the trees; because experience has
taught him, in some rare instan-
ces, that if they I've be will not be
able TO sell others TO fill their places
next year. This statement does not
apply - a dealers, for some take an
interest in the success of the trees
but we wish TO put on record q bin,
TO dealers, rot TO butcher trees in
wrenching them from the ground.
and we ask thcm, as a matter of jos
lice to confding purchasers, not to
let the trees perish from exposure al
ter they are dug.
Tue people who have been 80 of
ten disappointed, 10 trying to make
trees live, VII not continue to pay
out money for worthless stumps.
They want as many roots attached
to each pole as we usually find on
thu dry grubs sold for wood in the
market. Further more, they do not
desire trees that have had their roots
exposed to sun and wind until they
are worthless. A tree out of the
ground, like fish out of water, soon
perishes. 1t is very easy TO wrap
old carpets or coffee sacks, or blar-
kets, over he roots, to keep of sun
and wind. Bat better way is to
sell the trees before they are dug
and then speedily transplant with
little exposure.
A large number of cities and VII
lagos in Wisconsin have good forest
trees growing near them, which
might be easily TRANSPORTED to their
streets by enterprising men. A REP
utation for skill AMI promptness in
this line would bring men an increas-
ing trade each spring. It is work
worthy of the best men for it must
be wei done to succeed Most citi
zans are willing to pay for it; or
woul l be when they saw how their
neighbors trees l,okej; Thrifty
! Trees add TO the value of property.
The New Haven elms are more IA
nous than New Haven architecture
is.
Planting trees is the cheapest way
to improve adjoining property and
though II may seem to practical men
like matter of small Importance,
they should rememh her that it will be
considered of great Importance to
the next generation. The remark OF
an unsentimental bachelor, that "the
next generation has done nothing
for US" is true; but those OF the past
generation who said the same thing
of Us, we are not proud of or thanh
full to. We may say, also, that the
next generation wilt do something
f Us, in the wsy OF paying a large
national debt, inherited from this
generation. 1t will make them per-
spire very freely, too, before they
get the canoeing hammer driven
lhrough all the bonds. We ought as
an act of humanity, TO provide shade
trees for them on that account.
Final y, let us put out good trees
rock maple, white elm, and white
ash. They should have plenty OF
roots the tops should be smoothly
cut off, and the fresh wounds covered
with something to protect them.
The roots should be nicely spread,
10 large holes, with plenty OF fine
soil sprinkled about for the roollets
to feed on, and then the trees must
be mulched and watered until they
are vel, started