The herald., 1895-08-18

buttressed trunk and sturdy, virile bear
ing will impress you with reyerential
awe OF its future greatness and majesty.
Nature, small boy and an irate woman
sometimes work on parallel lines--lines
of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the beauti-
full.
Nature in planting big trees too CLOSELY
mas an answering end in view TO which
the beautiful is secondary-a mere Incl.
dent and yet never ''landcapes" with so
free hand does twelve year gamin.
Still another pair of Sequoias. this time
redwood. our famous lumber tree, the
largest in the city, stands upon one Of our
leading business streets. No maudlin
sentiment should spare them unless it be
to sometimes use them as q gallows frame
for the man who planted them only ten
feet apart.
In Southern California we have run riot
OH evergreen trees. We have allowed the
mania for evergreen planting to take ~
full possession of us as did the unclean
spirit the drove of swine, and wnen one
starts the rest OF us rush headlong down
a hill aligned with peppers. grevillias or
even orange trees. Once upon time the
orange tree was beautiful. Think of the
classic fancies it invokes. the poetic Ii
cense tnat has invested it from the time
OF Atlanta and Hippomenesl Think also
OF the poetic licentiousness with which
the author OF California for Health has
handled it in interest of his tract-pre-
cisely as Lydia Pinkham did her .spIeas.
ant purgative pellets" and then the fur.
ther ornamental value of the orange falls
to precisely the level of tho trees that
ADORNED the Noah's ark of our youth.
The pepper tree, as well. had it's vir-
tues, has its defects. Its first and only
yirtue-its beauty persisted when its de-
Yotees hegan parodies upon it In paint
These are offered at the leading art stores
for 10 cents, and panel of orange wood
thrown In. The tracery which bright
moon or strong electric light streaming
through the leaves Of pepper lee makes
upon the white road or cement walk be-
meath is lnexpressibly beautiful ana
leaves lasting and ineffaceable imprint
upon the mind; so does the nasty gum it
touch your hat or sealsKin coat. To ar
ralgn the grevillia for its shortcomings
were to write volume upon the subject.
All the trees in California of twenty
years or moro disparage themselves moro
eloquently than any words of mine can
early youth their beauty is altogether un.
assailable. In the ornamentation of our
gardens we still make heavy drafts upon
the antipodean flora and silva. This,
perhaps. from sentiment rather than any.
assured knowledge of their superior ad.
aptability to our soil and climate.
his sentiment is stronger among the
than in recent arrivals.
These latter have largely come in pursuit
OF stray lung-we pioneers for the bet
termenG of our moral health, and have
come to entertain tender regard for the
Australias, prompted doubtless by q
knowledge or remem brance OF how and
by whom the country about Botany bay
was first peopled.
We are certainly indebted to them for
the Araucarias-both the Norfolk island
ana the Moreton bay species, and SO i'm
pressed are we with their beauty that
You may find limitations of their stage
ike tiers of branches in some of our gar
dens done in Laurestinus. Ciburnu,n
tinus.) These are carefully clipped into
the main stem and a circular, thin tier
or staging of twigs and foliage left at in
tervals of about fifteen inches.
We have noted them planted close to
tete-a-tete rustic chair and a cast-iron dog
and they produce most cheerful effect.
The stages are also strong enough to sus-
tain the weight of an eggshell tea cup or
a plate of angel food or other light refeo-
tion. None that have seen have as yet
beep trained to revolve.