Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-05-11

tion of an adequate number of trees in the streets' The bill which was presented to the legislature of N. Y. in 1899, to put the care of the street trees in charge of a commiss on, was drawn by a physician, a. member Of the Board of Health, and was intro- duced as a sanitary measure.
 The advantage of appointing a Tree Commission or city forester, as some smaller cities have done, is obvious. It prevents ruthless !es- truction and careless neglect of trees. They are planted economically and systemat cally, also scientific care is taken of them, and harmony is attain ed by adherence to definite designs for certain streets. Frequently trees are most needed where property owners least appreciate their value. city law regulating the planting of trees and the appointment of a Tree Commission, or city forester. will overcome this obstacle. In some g, ates there .s fine attached to hitching to trees, and thereby defac- ing them, and it is also demeanor 10 use trees for advertisements.
 Avenues of stately Oaks, some planted years ago, many by pioneers of our city, who have long since pass l ed away, adorn most of our stree s running east and west. In numerous places, they would be improved. both in beauty and value, by thinning. In others, the spaces between should be filled with similar trees.
 Among the loveliest, most symmct' rical, and hardest of our trees is the water oak. Easily grown, requiring little attention, year after year in- creasing in beauty, small wonder it a favorite. and so admired by per sons from abroad.
 In the selection of trees for the avenues of our city, let Us adopt the Water oak as the natural and suitable tree. Whatever size our city shall attain, let us agree not to deviafe from this plan, even when Pine Bluff shall have reached the million mark in population. With the approval and assistance of our city officials, tn s plan could easily be accomplished.
 Our streets running North and South are named for various trees having been named, with some ievia- tion, after the manner of the streets of Philadelphia,
 In their order. they are Pine Chestnut, Walnut, Olive. Laurel Beech, Oak, Elm, Poplar, Cherry, Lin den. Mulberry. Ash, Locust. Plum. Ce dar, Hickory, Cypress, Maple, Spruce Hazfl, Magnolia, Palm, Willow, Fir ! Orange, Gum, Holly Regarding th' planting of shade CT ornamenta trees along these streets, what plal could be more desirable, or more 1T keeping, than to plant thereon, trees of like names?
 Let ,.he Slogan American fol Americans" lesound in our city Pine trees for Pine street. Walnut fol Walnut street, Poplar trees for Pop lar street, Elm trees for Elm stree'' Magaolia for Magnolia sreet, and st on all along the line. Should thi' plan of the City Beautiful Club b' consummated, Pine Bluff will become famous as the one city which by req son of its soil. climate. and more, b! the progress veness of its citizenship has attained such an ideal.
 When the travellers of the future visiting our city, circle overhead Il their aeroplanes. or those who prefe the old mode of railway travel pas these beautiful streets, and see tn lopp lines of stately Poplars, the am ple foliage of she Beech. the shelter ing branches of the Elm the beaut! and fragrance of the Plum'7 the 'al spires of the Cedar. the snowy bios soms of the Magnolia, the brightness and cheer of the Holly. What impress siyeness it vii, inspire!
 Arguments will probably be maa' aa u thr 3ract! "rlity of this plan a' c. II. erning some .,s these tre 's. Ill res nsnse to an inquiry as to which O these trees are indigenous to our soi' Hon. Clay Sloan. Comm ssioner O mines and agriculture, has respoho Q! with a bookles, "The F9'es, Kc sources of Arkansas.
 This book states that 12s trees ar' indigenous to our soil. sixty of wh ~ have commercial value.
 With the exception of Olive, Laufel Spruce. and Palm. all of the tfee u,btoh Ocfnr in thi