New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-12
FACTS ABOUT TREES.
PLANES SHED THEIR BARK AND EXCITE
MUCH wONDERMENT.
WOMEN ALL OVER THE COUNTRY INTERESTED
IN DISQUALIFICATION RELICS
WHICH STILL STAND.

nOMEN ALL OVER THE CObNIhf
IN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES RELICS
WHICH STILL STAND.
Can you tell me-" said woman in Brooklyn 10
Mr.. Collins, Of the Tree Planting Association why
many trees losing their bark? Two which
stand together Just here are nearly bare clear
10 the tops OF their highest branches and the bark
lies In piles their bases. Surely lightning can
not have struck them both, and then there are
scores OF others all over the city"
why, I saw a whole grove OF them in the same
condition In Central Park. madam replied Mr.
Collins. who had listened patiently you are more
than seven thousand years behind the times mat
IL the plane buttonball tree. which SHEDS us
bark annually. This has been especially favor
able season for H. and the yield OF bark has been
more prolific than usual. You are not he addeo'
"the only person who has been disturbed by them
this season People ask the same question con-
tnually"
The strange Rarlanded appearance OF the Eng
lish elms in Prospect Park has also attracted
good deal OF attention. The climate OF Long Islano
Is not favorable to their growth. and the great
brown limbs instead OF sending out branches were
during the summer covered simply with leaf twigs
The finest English elm IN NewYork City Is on the
west side OF ,ias.ccr Square.
Probably the choicest tree in anv OF the cry
parks is the cedar OF Lebanon In Prospect ARK
/ II stands on the meadow northeast OF Lookout
Hill The height, about forty feet. Is remarkable
for this country, and 1t would bear no mean COM
parson to some OF the famous ones In Kew Gar
/ iens. London. 1t is claimed that there Is only one
/ finer cedar Of Lebanon in the United states. IL
/ ls on c. F. Huntington's estate at West Chester
and Is about sixty feet high. These trees are most
! attractive In the early summer. when the old ana
new cones hang pendent together This tree docs
! not cone until II Is forty years old.
| There are trees which would seem to substanua'e
| the theory OF some scientists that there is no
reason why tree should ever die. unless destroyer
by unfavorable conditions or by accidents.
The oak for example will live as sapihB loi
ages until given opportunity for growth There Is
an old SAYING TO the effect that II n pine Forest Is
cut down an forest will grow; and this IS said
to be literally true. Many OF the acorns carried
into the ne woods by birds and squirrels are lett
TO sprout in the ground AS the tiny sapings grow,
browsing natives of the forest shades nioo'e ol
their tender leaves Again and again new leaves
are nut firth only 10 serve az food for hungry
deer or moose or other maraudng creatures ANA
So hidden from the sunlight, deprived as IL "ouiu
appear of every essential OF life. the little plants
live on; md when at last the pines are ieheu anu
the sunlight reaches them they begin their era VI
growth ,
I'niaue among the treasures or prospect rum "
the weeping oak the main entrance
The most beautiful silver lindens in America ana
tha choicest dogwoods and finest tulip trees OF TINS
city are to be found in Prospect PARK. MaHy VI
the tulip trees belong d TO the prirneval forest ms
park also has excellent specimens OF Variega'eu
japanese and eagle claw naples.
/ Several thousand trees were set out In prospect
Park last season; and great numbers OF otherS
which had heen planted as nurse trees 70 sh''er
sapllngs and which. grown to large proportions
were obscurng some OF the finest CROWNS were
cut down
Among the dwarf evergreens at the main en-
/ trance 10 Prospect Park the Retinasporas' Win
their fcrnlike foliage and fastigiate forms, nave
beon most generally admired They nave come lh'o
+ ,erv gene al use and no longer novelties lheS
are the ores used by the japanese to produce he
curious dwarf trees Of which Prospect PARK mas
fine collection They are frequently called japanese
cedars lat that is misnomer. They are not
cedors The tiny dwarf trees have been more gen
/ orally used this summer for vernndns ana SUIT
mer house decorations than ever hetote
! The Tree Planting Association or brooklyn mas
/ try The association has received letters from I'm
I almost every large town and city. written by
/ women Who are anxious to learn now 10
! he1uflfy their own grounds ard the streets OF
I their neighborhood one woman. VINO owns
! wealth Of trees her own beautiful farm. ana
loves them every one, says with what seems IKE
| crl.el harshness. The next greatest pleasure 10
! owning tree Is to cut It down. 'Woodman.