Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-05-03
Shade Trees

Usually at the spring Of tue year it is the
custom to inquire what trees to plant. Few
sort OF anu idea that somethiGS is REQUIRED red to
protect them from the heats OF summer, but
what is the best for that purpose or even good
for that purpose, they do not know at an
just al this time, which may be regarded as u
little late, though the season is some two weeks
Is bos w 50 sroW fas
must be confessed that very few OF fast-gro wing
trees a1e handsome, or afford much pleasure
beyond the sensual one Of shade. One thing
most of them are great robbers OF the ground.
and very few things get chance 10 grow well
hear them. The willows, poplar, silver maple,
and some others which will make trees as thick
as our body In few years, nave roots so nu-
merous that not even blade OF grass is al
low ed to grow anywhere near them:
Trees which do not grow 80 very fast are the
best for final purposes. Many OF them will per-
Fit OF grass or other vegetation growing quite
Uy to their trunks without injury. People often
ask what Kind OF things will grow under the
shade of trees but 1t makes great difference
what trees make the shade, as 10 what things
VIII grow under them.
We see many people bravely planting slow
growing trees for shade, contending that even
is well enough, however, TO talk this way In
spring; with the thermometer ar 80 deg, and
Lot much choice between an overdose OF roast
meat and fast growing tree, it is not In human
nature to hesitate as to the choice.
But why not combine the two? Ii we need to
plant two trees before our door, why not plant
three, and let One-the middle One-be q fast
grover and the rest OF some beautiful slower
growing kind For instance, there might be
two American lindens. with black or some
other poplar between them, or two horse chest
nuts fank1ng silver maple two Norway ma
pies with paulOwnia or other similar cOmbi-
nation, and when the trees are likely to crowd
cut the fast grower away. The labor ami cost
OF an extra tree Is as nothing to half dozen
years OF pleasant shade.
OF each OF this class of trees there are now
some numbers. or the fast grower, there are
the weeping willow, European alder, silver ma
PIE, ailanthus, paulownia, silver poplar Caro-
lima poplar, cottonwood poplar, grey poplar
black poplar, ana American aspen poplar OF
the slower growing trees, which might be
planted for permanent ones to occupy the
whole space when the more rapid ones are
taken away, are the sugar, sycamore, Norway
naples, and red naples, tulip tree, magnolia.
tripeteta, and acuminata, American linden, a
beautiful tree for this region, where the Euro
pean does not thrive SO wen, the European and
American white ashes, the horse chestnut. the
English elm, where 1t Is free from the elm leaf
bug, and the American elm, which does not
suffer quite SO badly; and the different kinds of
oak, which complete the list of really desirable
shade trees. or oaks there are, we suppose q
good list in most nurseries, as we have seen
about Philadelphia many kinds, here and there,
that have been set out the few past years. We
might name the English royal oak, the pin oak,
burr Osk, chestnut oak, swamp white oak, red
oak, black oak, scarlet oak and white oak
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