Daily camera., 1898-03-11
TREES WORTH GROWING.

- provement Society.
We have the cottonwood and we shall
want to keep 1t in some places. Its dis
tinct yellow color in the fall more than
pays for the plague of its cotton in the
spring. Yet the cottonwood is nota lawn
tree and can not be recommended for
small lots. The ash-leaved maple or
box elder is native on our streams as well
as the cottonwood and that is recon.
mendation for it. Just now 1t is infested
with worms and makes sorry exhibi-
ton of itself large part of the season.
But the day of pests passes by and the
tree is not to be dismissed because at
present it harbors nuisance. This tree
sets branch deep in the wood, which is
not easily twisted out, and so is one of
the best wind fighters we have.
The soft naples of various sorts are
favorites because they are such rapid
growers. Objections of them are. that
they are easily broken and that they har.
Dor insects. BY proper trimming the
first objection could be met. They
develop their rich dark red blossom buds
even early in the fall, and with the red
twigs on which the buds are mounted,
they furnish one of the most marked of
winter decorations. If one has the
grounds for it fine ornament is made by
cutting young soft maple to the ground
and then letting the sprouts grow up in
bush form. have seen a cluster of
fifteen to twenty, two 10 three inches in
diameter and as many feet high. 1t made
a beautiful ornament against bank of
higher trees behind. If you want to fill
in spaces between other trees with some
thing of the bush order. there is nothing
better than to set soft naples and cut
them back every few years. You can
have fresh, thrifty bush for gener.
alton. When you want to make bank
of green from the ground up this is one
way in which to DO it. But for shrub
of this sort or for lawn ornament, we
have right here on our streams one of
the incest soft maple shrubs in the coun.
try. am surprised that there is not
specimen of it transplanted in this city.
d, M. Andrews says the botonical name
is the "scer glabrum." He is beginning
to cultivate it. predict for it future
all over the land as lawn ornament. 1t
has had no attention yet, ana strange to
say it is the most frequent bush up the
streams. Its branches are long and
pendulous like the weeping willow. Its
leaves somowhatresemble the cut leaved
birch. This maple ought to have care.
full experiment here on its native ground.
The red brier is found up our streams
and that transferred to lawn makes a
fine ornament. 1t belongs with the dog.
woods, covers itself with heads of ine
white flowers in the spring and in the
fall holds up rich red bronzed leaf long
against the frost.
The best lawn and street decoration,
in majority OF cases, is the hard maple
sugar or rock-and the Norway. Their
charm is that while growing they are
beautiful. They represent nothing of an
unfinished pin feather stage of growth.
People say they are of slow growth. Yes.
but they are beautiful all the time. An
elm, like cottonwood. belongs some
where. But do not know of any homes
more doleful looking than those in some
eastern towns that are all covered over
with elms.
We ought to experiment more. Take
nut trees-horse chestnut, chestnut, oaks,
hickories, pecans-some of these are fine
shade trees. The red bud, miscalled
Judas tree, is glory from blossom to
falling leaf. A magnolia think would
live here. Let us have some more spruce
and frs. Variety should be the watch
word. c. CAvERNo.
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