Arizona republican., 1911-01-03
HOW CARE OF TREES
 WILL BEAUT|FY CITY
RIVERSIDE FURNISHES EXAMPLE
 FOR PHOENIX.
Horticulturist Blackman Back With
 Beautiful and Interesting Photos.

With more than dozen large photo
 graphs showing what can be accomp-
 lished toward the Identification of a
 city by intelligent care of its trees. City Horticulturist l.. R. Blackman has re-
 turned from a visit to his former home
 in Riverside California
 Mir. Blackman went to 5Riverside
 partly to spend Christmas, but mainly
 to'secure photographs of streets in that city. Much of the arboreal beauty of Riverside is due tO the plans and work
 of MT. Blackman and the photographs he has brought back furnish an excel
 lent proof of what Phoenix can ac- complished if she tries.
 Photographs were taken at various points in the suburbs of Riverside
 Most of the streets which MT. Black
 man photographed are lined with pep per trees and as conditions here are about the same as in Riverside. he un- hesitatingly recommended the pepper for planting in Phoenix.
 One of the photos is of a 4-year-old pepper by two-story school building The tOpmost boughs are above the roof of the scool Such growth as this is attained only by trees that have con stant. intelligent care
 All trees that are planted in River side are staked. and kept tied to the stakes until the trunks are straight and strong enough tO bear the weight of the foliage. This prevents the growth fnr n1l aho "A crooked sapling makes a crooked tree" is just as true as it ever was.
 Until the tree is years old its limbs are cut off a foot from the trunk This causes the trunk to grow tall and straight. At the end of four years the short limbs are removed.
 Trees are trimmed so that one may have a view of the houses from the street and of the street from the houses. All the heavy foliage is above, giving just as much shade and not ob- structing the view or the passage of air. often the bOughs arch above the street. shading the driveway.
 T am in favor of an extensive plant ing Of pepper trees here in Phoenix" said MT. Blackman last night They Siftil lilt Nfti IbuIu diiu iftluilf as little attention as any variety know. Native ash trees are nice when 1 green but they shed their leaves at the season when we most want green cry. Blue gums do not give enough | shade but the red gums seem to do | fairly well here and tO he a fairly sat tree"
 one of the photographs MT. Black | man brought back shows a tree lined | with black acacias. This tree is very i but does not grow as rapidly as the pepper. So far as is | known it has never been planted here, l but Mir. Blackman believes that it | would grow very well
 Another photograph shows how | street ear tracks are beautified in | Riverside Usually the streets on | which car lines run are the most un slightly of a city. but the planting of | palms has remedied this condition in | certain parts of Riverside
 "I am interested in Phoenix and | would like to see its trees cared for | in the way that Riverside's trees are | ,ared for" said the horticulturist. | This is my home now ard intend to | 10 all in my power to beautify Phoenix | m an arboreaI way. The city simply | cannot afford not to take care of it's | trees"