The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-04-14
BEAUTIFY
THE CITY
Happy Effect OF the General
Planting OF ShadeTrees

/ Although Seattle. by reason OF ia
mild and cqunble climate. Is partic-
I ularly we'll adapted TO the raising Of
shrubhery and shade trees. Il IL "a
/ fact that shade trees aru exceedingly
/ hard To procure az the present time.
| NvtN Few Of the uuraefymen go IN
I extensively for this sort OF thing, and
| consequently when called upon to fiii
an order are compelled TO send out
side the city Tot the trees.
/ The use OF shade trees as means
I OF hcautifying the property IA the
| city has increased mnrvelouniy In the
/ past two years. This has arisen
principally from the fact that the
/ city council IN ordering streets grad
I Oh or new sidewalks built. has made
ample provision Tor "a parking strip
Of good width.
Up on the first hill. where the
streets have been nsphalted recently,
| the width Of the parking strips IL
I particularly noticeable IL il not
compulsory Tor the property owner
to beautify this strip. bat IN almost
every instance the natural pride a
/ resident has 90 this looks OF his prop
erty leads him 90 plant trees and
shrubbcry ana SOW grass seed.
Part Of contraet
IL has been suggested. and the idea
II meeting with good deal OF APP
| probation. that the beauiifyiug Of
] the parking strips BY planting trees
I etc. should be made part 81 the
Improvement That o.. the council
/ would order it and have 50 incorpo.
rated Ia the Improvement ordinance
and charged against the property
I tho same an grading. curbing, park
/ iuE. etc The property owner could
be- consulted Ia the matter of tho
general Improvement % the parking
strip and any special decoration
could be arranged at his own private
expense. II II believed that this
I scheme could be successfully carried
out
The reasons given by the nursery
men for the scarcity ~ shade trees
are many. A well known urrrrymAn
explained the matter yraterday a.
| follows, when Il was determined
by the council 90 establish a nursery
az Volunteer park. where trees could
be procured ~ citizens a. a small
cost. the nurHerymau found that they
could not enter into successful COM
petition with the city. and 80 stopped
importing and raising many Of the
more ordinary varieties Of shade
trees.
EAWaefdiharN psmana
two or three years ago u looked
az though the city had "a practically
inrxhauntihlg supply OF trees on
hand. All At once an extraordinary
d~man arose and AZ the present sine
the stock at Volunteer park u sadly
depicted. II q hard % get good ina
Piles and even vyerKrcens are scarce
in spite % the fact that they auem
20 b. plentiful about the city.
For instance. had an order a
few days ago FOR some hufNs chest
nuts. had TO send EaHt Tor them.
Hy the way u " strange that this
tree u not more used Tor decorative
purposes in Seattle ~ grows rap
idly and with little care, II is a very
pretty tree and doses not litter = lawn
with leaves. a. - many tresca do.
White birch. clmH. oak and many
other shade trees are 10 great de-
mand. and IL 10 krcpn up this sum
uer AZ 70 did last We viii be import.
ing entirely from outside points
Strawberries arc equally tu dema nj
and equally acMrce. I DO not know
% any solution unless the nursery
men 70 into the business actively
again Or the city nursery IL re-
stoc ksl
1T viii certainly do ihe city no
harm to have The residents g. Ia for
this sort ~ thing and 4 for one. am
~ the opinion sittt = year or two will
nee veritahie tfansfrfmation IN the
appearance ~ the residence dis
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