The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04

Hedges. Screens and shelter Belts.

Hedges, Screens and Shelter Belts
The idea of planting hedges for use
and ornament, and screens for the pro-
lection of orchards, farms and gar
| dens, is a practical one and rapidly
| becoming appreciated. Many of the
| prominent and foresighted farmers
and fruit-growers in the prairie states
east of us have planted large belts of
Norway spruce and white pine along
their entire north and west lines, and
some have surrounded their residences
and farm buildings with these and
other varieties of evergreens. They
are at once beautiful, and in a short
time grow to be perfect wind-breaks.
The owners consider their farms worth
SO an acre more in consequence.
They serve not onlyxas a protection
against the fierce winds. but there is
much less trouble from the blowing off
of fruit. 1t is said that the temperature
is from to 10 degrees warmer in the
vicinity of evergreens. However tits
may be, it is conceded that gardens
are earlier, and that fruits ripen bet
ter when protected by such screens.
Nothing can be more beautiful than
ornamental hedges of evergreens, well
kept and pruned, to serve as boundary
lines between neighbOrS, or as diVi-
sions between the lawn and garden, or
to hide unsightly places. By using
medium-sized plants, a hedge can be
made as cheaply as a good board fence
can be built, and then with a little
care 1t is becoming every year more
and more "a thing of beauty."We all
know that such hedges continue the
principal attraction in our best-kept
places.
The Importance of wind-breaks and
shelter belts of evergreens around our
western prairie farms must at once
become apparent to everyone who has
been exposed to the pitiless blasts on
a, cold winters day on one of them.
How much more snug and comfortable
would each one become, how immeas-
urably more valuable if inclosed by
belt of cedarS, sturdy pines, or stall
Wart Norway spruce. Trees adapted
for that purpose, not as regular in
shape as would be desirable in speci-
men trees for a lawn, can always be
purchased at very low rates from
nurseries where evergreens are grown
in large quantities, and if planted in
double rows, eight feet apart each.
way, around your homestead, cattle
yard or orchard, would make a screen
IN a few years that would add zen
aimes its cost to your farm, in comfort
and beauty. They should be planted
around every place which is to be a
nome IN the true sense of the word
EvergreenS are so cheap, and so
easily grown if reasonable care be
taken with them, that there is no
reason why every Utah farmer should
not plant a few hundred about his
premises.
Every farmer who has an eye to the
future will not only plant evergreens
for wind-breaks or ornament about
his premises. but will devote a part of
his land to the growing of forest trees,
as the white ash. elm. maple, pine.
walnut, wild black cherry, beech, etc.
1t has been claimed by some. upon
very good grounds, too, that the plant
ing of forest trees is the very best life
insurance that the farmer can leave
his family. A 100 acre tract of 40-year-
old forest trees will prove a richer in
heritance than any farmer could pos
sibly leave his family by any ordinary
methods of wealth accumulation.
Those of our farmers who are inter-
ested in the growing of evergreen or
forest trees would do we'll to write 70
the Elgin Nurseries, Elgin, ILL.,, or to
the Waukegan Nurseries. r. Douglas
& Sons, Waukegan, ILL.,, and ask them
for copies of their catalogues and
wholesale price lists. For the encour-
agement of popular planting of ever
greens, both of these nurseries are Of /
fering to send fifty to one hundred
Seeding one and two-year-old trees, /
postpaid to any address, for one dol /
lar. Certainly every land owner should /
grow a few.