Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-23
PLANTING OF TREES.
A WORK THAT is BEAUTIFUL
AND USEFUL.
The Necessity in Our Dry Climate Tor Cover.
ING Of Trees Some instructive
Observations About H.
Temple, Tex, Jan. 81

great attraction 90 me. Some trees point
always heayenward but the will
low, M seeming sympathy
with humanity clings to the earth from
winch u sprung, Hnd its trailing arms
POINT downward. reminding one that
within the heart lies the seed and soil
for growth and fruit.
fortunately thore are few men or WOO
men who cannot appreciate the beauty
IN art or nature. Such people neither
love themselves nor are beloved or es-
teemed by others. The gentleman who
plauteu that willow and cares for IL
IS enOblng himself and humanity BE
the passerby poet, artist or musician, or
o plain humdrum Smith or Jones, he
~ bound to stop and admire this green
harmonious creation. | wish everyone
could have seen II last fall in It's glory
No one Is so poor that lac cannot plant
a tree this winter You need them along
the sidewalks. Haven't you often ap-
precated them IN front of other peoples
houses on hot sunny daysg Your farm
needs them. Don't you know your wife
and children viii be happier and love
home more II it Is beautifully Trees
protect the house from the cold. biting
winds of winter and the hot midday sun
of summer. II you love the practical
you will take pleasure in seeing how
much The cows aud horses enjoy the
how the bauy0rd cock glories ia crow
ing from the tOpmost branches. Your
wife will appreciate listening 10 the
song OF the hooking bird which nests
IN its limbs. and the children win watch
the notified eggs ripen into feathered
wings and hungry mouths
| have neither time nor space TO eX-
patiatc upon the practical or poeticnl
benefit that trees will give you. The
immense benefit from trees judiciously
selected and planted is often discussed
by our educated aud intelligent body OF
men composing the Bell County Far
mers' Institute They urge the neces-
sity of tree planting especially Ia this
section. Much of our farming land in
Texas is wooded. some probably too
much So hut our state as un entirety Is
trecless. and the farms need trees. Trees
give u farm a hOspitahle. hOmcly look.
II is said That trnmps are afraid to b"g
at a house thDt Is gurdenless nud tree.
less. Experience no doubt shows that
they contain more kicks and bulldogs
than inviting homes. This is about the
only advantage Of a trecless home. Our
climate needs trees, we need them 20
distribute the rainfall. They will pay
YOU an Investment. Leave them as an
Inheritance 10 your children. grove
OF pecans. black wulnuts. or other yHlu-
able trees, would pay your children
better than life insurance. You are
figuring on a fifteen or twenty year
$1,000 insurance between $1,000 to
50 200. Well In that time your grove
will be making you handsome returns
and will cost you comparatively little
The consumption of our timber IL enor-
NOUS and yet we make no effort. as
all European nations do, TO urge replant-
ing, iudiciOus cutting and preservation
~ g. uI hts t.Nn of IA
people by forestry schools. | visited n
number Of these schools abroad and can
testify to their great practical benefits.
Don't make tree planting burden.
Plant one. or as many ns your time per
mts In a season ! believe moro people
leave good things undone because the
inmengity of the results appall them,
than for any other reason. A house is
only built one brick at time, aud bet
ter plant one tree this year aud another
next than to grow enthusiastic over n
grove, and then be dismuyed into doing
nothing by the immensely Of IT, The
late Judge Ballinger will always com
mend himself 20 me as a good man
when | see those noble oaks he planted
around his residence in Galveston "All
the world loves a lover be he IN love
with music art, nature or woman Al
fred Tennison spoke TO each Of ~ In
our humble spheres, and his verse has
brought music into many duh life.
II il love that makes the world akin.
not money nor misery lover OF
humanity Is beloved Such was Florence
Nightengalc, Livingston, Garfield, Gen
eral Lee, and Shaw, who gave his SUI
pcrb garden 10 81, Louis; Stanford, Pea
body. Peter Cooper; these MI strike alike
the keynote OF life.
Galveston. as well as Houston, has
furnished Texas with n number of grand
examples of rich men who loved their
fallowmen One who loves nature and
brings il TO his fellowmen through his
verse. his canyas or by the actual music
sung from many treetOps, Is in accord
with the great heart throbs of life. As
nll the world, loves a lover. so all the
world hates inordinate greed, a miser, n
wrecker. one who climbs up by pulling
down his fellowmen; such g mah is
allied TO the upns family, lou know
the upas tree spreads indefinitely by
sending down root-suckers from us
branches; it is all fingers and sucking
roots. killing out everything OF tree or
pl1nt growth about IL. II is the gr0ndest
| illustration Of grab" we have An nature,
| like Tammany IN politics
In Saratoga Springs. n, T. some
| thirty or more years ago. the city couh-
| IN rebated from each mans tax 81 for
| eacb tree he planted along the sidewalk
| The trees Of Saratoga help 20 make II
TODAY the peerless summer resort II rs.
| hone the railways of the state viii soon
begin Ia beautify their depot grounds by
| manting trees Our schools have be-
| auu n great work by taking up nrbor day,
| and our governor Is much interested "a
| the general observance of the day beD'
| - Nearly all states now observe arbor
! dny. and j believe il will soon become a
| national holiday. The American Fores-
/ try association, with headquarters az
| Washington. d. O.. Is doing a great
work m furthering the interests Of tree
| nlanting and forestry. General II. r.
FernOw. who is chief OF the forestry
deportuent of the United Suites, h an
! active Lender In the association. Tho
assoriation's membership IL drawn from
| an over the United States. Texas, how
evrr N very poorly represented. be
neve the writer Is the only member IRON
| tbia state | very much wish those Wnc
are Interested In this subject Would
join. M -..,. ~
most too late for tree planting, but Inc
originator OF arb0r day IN Texas &c
signated that day as being the best io'
| outdoor ohseryauces. In the North ar
nor dav comes az late as May. Tree.
should be planted during the ran anl
winter. and c0nsecrnted, so 20 speak, o.
that day. A few special trees previously
| planted In boxes. can be ser out on ar
nor day. No grander object lesson car
he found for children than Ia trees Ae
c6rdinp 70 Shakespeare there are Ton
guas Ia trees books In the runmni
| brooks sermons IN stones and good ~
; avar,thin0N w GOOINiNH JONES.