The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-17
TREES
Association Gets Check
To Start Fund.

Miss Dora Conger has started a
campaign for improving the condi-
tion of the trees. She wants the CO.
operation of everybody in Honesdale.
She says:
1--WE are accustomed to hear our
village spoken of as the Maple
City," and perhaps we have some
times used the term ourselves, with
a feeling of pride in the long rows
of trees which arch our streets with
cool green vaulting, from springtime
to the season when we no longer
need the protection of their shade.
Natures Work.
Though Nature, by the Cliff on
the one side, and by the gently
sloping hills on the other, has limit
ed Honesdale as to possibilities of
growth, she has, in those same bar
riers, provided its most attractive
features. Archftectually, man has
done but little for the town. There
are but few buildings which can
boast of grace or dignity, and were
it not for the surrounding heights
were the place but a fat expanse,
there would be, to redeem 1t from
the commonplacenes of a thousand
ouCh NllldSCo, hOIllhS Dul IhlI W ulII
Nature and Man together have Civ
the Square" of our village, and the
beauty of the naples which line its
streets.
Ancestors Work.
"Our ancestors, who planted those
trees, must have had. the good, and
the beauty of their home deep in
their hearts, and we have reaped the
benefit of their thought and work
But is that all we are going to do
Think what our town would be
without its trees-a dreary habita
tion indeed--and that is possibility
which we may have to face, unless
something is done at once, to pre-
serve them!
Present Condition.
THE situation is this: Our trees
both in the parks, and under indi
vidual care, all through the town
have been improperly trimmed
Limbs have been Topped off as wal
thought necessary, regardless of, o.
in ignorance of the proper metho(
for the trees preservation. A limb
severed, leaving part on the ire,
to give an opening for decay, spell
eventual death for the entire tree
: A wound, improperly treated, o
with no attempt at all of a healin!
dressing, means that the life-blood o
the tree flows away, and its strengtl
is lost.
This is not imagination-it is
very present menacing condition
which has been observed by on
whose business it is to know of sue
things. Unless we wish to becom
town of dreary, barren streets, W
= will use such foresight as had thos
: who gave US our beautiful trees, an
take immediate measures for thei
conservation. Even at this seaso
of the year, an examination will shoN
that there are many dead branche
on trees, which should be healthy.
ROnesdale Improvement AssociatiO
, Receives Check For SIS.
r Mrs. A. B. Heine, of New Yorl
s who has the welfare of the town a
= heart, has already sent a check 70
$15 to be used for the cause, and
is to be hoped that we may all b
aroused to the necessity of immed
ate interest and action
t Mrs. Heine says: THE citizens c
S Honesdale ought to take enoug
4 pride in their town to look after tn
9 trees, for Honesdale without tree
1 would be like a beautiful bird shor
e of his feathers. One begins to rea
g fze and appreciate what the Firs
e Corners did for the town,-when the
laid it out and planted the rows {
beautiful trees. l am afraid tn
present generation has not the prid
!, and affection for the old town tha
the past generations had. Howeve
:, | see the Improvement society is dC
!, ing a great deal to keep up tn
q proper interest in the town. l eI
g close check for this purpose"