The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-02-08

table. He will become n missionary o
! Nature, home missionary, and flower
| VIII spring UP under his feet. Not on,
blade, but whole fields OF grass will grow
| IN the barren places where he has lrod
me best proof OF a mans Christianity Il
| what he does. We have often heard O
| the housemaid who signalized her CONVEX
sion by sweeping in sundry and bidder
| places whittier she had never swept be-
| fore. have little confidence in mar
who claims to be religious and yet fails tc
| pay his debts 10 man aud his obligations
| TO Nature IL every pulpit in Texas would
preach awhile about the planting of trees
and flowers gossipers and backbters would
subside for want of listeners, idlers would
become producers and people without an
idea now would have hundred coursinl
through their heads. Nature is as re-
sponsive to ones slightest touch as
mothers heart is to her childs least wish
Everybody can plant something; there
Is no backyard too small for a tree OF
flower. Children can see in the dead seed
budding into life and beauty, the mys-
terry of life
The cost of tree planting is very small.
After ten years experience we have
found the best way to plant trees is from
the nut.
The last three drouthy years have been
very hard on transplanted forest trees un-
l.
ing grows finer nor faster than the black
walnut The writer sent to Kentucky for
2Vo pounds of choice nuts and set them out
on his farm In December. One hundred
walnuts planted three years ago have now
become trees about six feet high We also
set out this winter over bushel of choice
West Texas pecans. Nuts should first b.
bedded in sand, watered every day and
Kept there about ten days before trans
planting to their permanent location. The
hackberry grows wonderfully fast in this
black soil when planted from the seed and
occasionally watered
Emma trees grow very fast, but are a
nature with us. as they die suddenly with
out provocatlon and without notice Tbe
cotton wood, sycamore and eatalt,as can
also be classed as failures. The blackberry
and live oak give best results. When tho
writer ilrst came TO Temple ten years ago
lrere was not live oak in the town. and
every one said they would not grow. We
nave demonstrated that 1t Is the best
slowing Tree III the town, and they can be
seen In our city park aud ON our school
grounds, Live oaks will need mora wator
the llrst summer than hackberries.
mere Is not city in Texas thai conll
no' oe peautiiled by trees and parks and
wy nave seen the most of them. Galvesloo
should plant live oaks on the Broadwnv
espianade. and 1t would become The mast
~ ~. o,Ne ana most notable thing In
'he city Brooklyn. Buffalo Cleveland
ana great number of other Northfrn ~
les take their chief pride in some speeiailv
shaded avenue. Flowers naturally follow !
after trees, and when the lord Of nv
household begins to plant trees the wife
calls for garden.
~ iesdfns the railroads, II would be |
money TO them to beau,ify their station
;a with trees ard flowers This IL
zone extensively in the North and II pays
railroad that will baautify It's depot |
, , gives evidence that it takes an
,au,se IN me town and has an eye TO the |
phitVT' ana pleasure Of it's patrons. This |
the best watered stock railroad can
W, our II the Santa Fe railway would
snl sueh plan as this in Texas il would
make II the most popular road in the State
no would initiate in nearly every town
nd planting crusade 'NoAs
w Goodrich Jonas