New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-02-21
TO SET OUT TREES.
Tree Planting association Getting
Ready for Spring-S15 Buys One.

The advice OF the old Scotsman ''Ye may aye be
stickin' In tree, lad; they'll CROWN while we're
sleepin'" might well be the motto OF the New-York
Tree Planting Association. who now sending in
their nursery orders for this springs work AS
soon the frost is out OF the ground the actual
work viii begin
New-York is reported the most negligent
OF the great cities OF the world in the matter of
trees and some Of the public spirited Of her
citizens have had to to the rescue. Especially
IN the tenement districts is their work needed
There the planting OF tree is ''nobodys business
There are NJ householders, real homes, whose
inmates might feel personal pride in the improve
ment OF their property. The people --pigeonhoed"
IN tbs tiers and tiers of fats that line the
row streets might well be considered the most IN
appreciatipe material for the making Of tree
lovers"
AS matter OF fact. however. experience shows
that there better cared for than those
given over to the Of the typical tenement
dweiIer. The majority of the eighty-four trees
planted during the last year have been in the vi
cinity OF Settlements and Of these all but ten are
IN a most iourishing condition Attached TO the
wire guard about every tree planted In the crowded
localities is small enamelled sign, which reads
This is gift to all children. Be its friend
And this is sometimes construed in truly literal
fashion Visiting East Side block between First
and Second aVes look after the condition of hf-
teen trees planted there last spring, member of
the Tree Planting Association found small boy
digging vigorously around the roots Of a thriving
Carolina poplar with a broken fork. He not
making more than a half-inch impression on the
hard soil, but his chubby face beaming with
sense Of Importance and public service rendered
This is the what takes care Of" he ex-
planned. ITS the biggest Of EN- ali, but II
wouldn't be less did this TO it every day" And
the association representative could but agree
with him In his heart, for even vegetable life
needs love thrive.
"DEADER N HAY
Another Of the fifteen trees however, was
--deader n hay" according u the proprietor of
the 'fcecream parIor" in front Of which it stood
An yet there amt been hardly day 1 didn't
water 1t O. my own ice pals" he continued
sadly. The little do miss that tree, and I'd
give little something toward getting another II
YOU think il 'u'd grow
His sorrow wren told that his salt
watering which had been the young trees death
really pathetic
The wire guard of still another found
filed packed tightly, two feet deep with fresh
manure from the streets. Il would inevitably, OF
course have destroyed both bark and roots Some
small boys questioned TO the author Of
this heroic treatment. It's Mis- Houligan what
looks after it, they explained. but wei take it
out for yees." And this they did with d will but
as the self-appointed inspector again passed up
the street he waited by terrified group
Of youngsters. she's goin' TO have US copied
for it, they explained, and told her it was
you but she don't b'lieve il, and she says she don't
pisrter climbed several dark stairways 10 intro
duce himself 10 Mis- Houligan and found her au-
burn haired and in no aniable frame of mind,
It's good 50 cents ! gave fer the stuff" she
look down on its little green leaves from me IRE
escape there and it minds me some O The old
washin' an such jes' fer this an now we've gone
an undid it all without leave or license. Who is
OF the fifteen trees planted in that one block
where over six hundred children made their
homes only two nad died in the year, and neither
Of these from wilful injury neglect. Every child
in The neighborhood could give The indigidual his
tory OF any enc OF The trees, ana consldered eacn
them were named aud all of them possessed spe-
ciai characteristics by which they Familiarity
destgnafed The experience in this locality
seemed indeed to wei illustrate JacobRiis's re
the homes of the poor the better: as they grow,
As matter Of fact it is somewhat Mahomet
and the mountain case in tenement localities The
vast majority Of the denizens OF these lower dis
tTicts afford 20 make little. II any use Of the
large parks and So in some small sort me parks
must come TO them Numerous appears hake
reached the Treeplanting Association from the
A little girl with Ffrst-aVe. ADDRESS wto o aoG
planted one in front of Jimmy Fagans mouse. and
give me one. too? I'll take more better care of IL
fhan Jimmy does Jimmy Pagan. II was learned.
Thirty ninth-st before which young poplar had
been planted last year.
JUST ONE TREE. MISTER
As the tenement district shade committee.
however depends entirely volunteer contribu-
lions il has 10 hold over many appeal 10 which
il would otherwise gladly respond at once So
anxious were the teachers of East Side schools
FOR school tree" that they went TO the woods
themselves and dug up small saplings. but owing
ignorance in selecting and in the method OF
transplanting. these die not thrive as did those
in sister schoolyard.
The association can furnish good nursery grown
cost OF SO apiece.
AS BYGIENIC FACTOR.
Even single tree is important in absorbing the
oarhonic gas thrown of by animal life and separat-