Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-01-30
HEMENWAY ON
TREE Culture
Interesting Address Made
Last Night at High School
by Civic Expert.
TELLS HOW TO PLANT.
Discusses Two Classes of Trees
Those OF the Street and Those
of the Lawn.
TELLS HOW TO PLANT.

Owing to the inclement weather the
audience which heard the second lee
ture of Prof. Herbert D. Hemenway
last evening at the High School
building, was not so large as had been
anticipated, but those who did come
were benefited and we'll entertained.
The second lecture delivered by this
expert on civic benefits in the way of
identifying the cities was on "Trees
and Tree Planting" Under this head
he discussed many phases of broad
subject. He will deliver another lee
ture tonight and this will be the last
of the series.
Mr.. Hemenway opened his talk by
saying the subject of trees was a
broad one, and telling of one man who
paid $1,000 for a large tree. People
might study for years and still have
much to learn.
The subject of trees he divided into
two classes; stereet trees and lawn
trees. The red maple he recommend
ed for quick growth and beauty in the
spring and fall; the other NAPLES
while very desirable wele not quite,
so satisfactory. These trees should
be planted about 40 feet apart to al
low plenty of rooon for the foliage to
spread. We should plant something
of value to the next gen grafton.
Norfolk, Virginia, has the best sys-
tenn of planting trees. A commission
err who attends to practically nothing
else has planted the same kinds of
trees on each street, all ellns for in
stance none street, all naples on
another, thus giving uniformity Of
growth and appearance. He personal
ly looks after the pruing and general
care OF them and places wire frame
around each tree after seven-foot
stake has been driven down by it.
In order to protect our elms we
must spray probably for years against
the European elm beetle, using arsen-
ate of lead. Many trees are being kill
ed by leaking gas mains and by pois-
onous substances in the soil.
BY use of dynamite to loosen the
soil before the tree is planted thus
giving the roots air and more room
the tree will make as much growth In
years as one not planted properly
will make in six or ten years. Red
oaks make a fine tree though of slow
growth.
The lawn trees were not spoken OF,
the sassafras with the bitt leaf and
the spiked leaf making beautiful fol-
iage.
The white birch should be grouped
and placed against dark backgrounds
on lawns.
Fruit grating is simpler than
thought, to obtain good results the
fruit trees must be grated.
All stone fruit must be budded..
Tongue grating being used for APP
pies.
Young trees must be heeled when
first received from the nursery, until
the buds swell then they are almost
sure to grow and thrive well. These
methods were all effectively illustrat-
ed with the slides as were all the dlf-
ferent varieties of trees. b.
He next took up the best methods
of saving trees showing various meth
ODDS of tree surgery such as the cable
chain to hold the tree together and
cement filing for hollow trees, and
how TO trim the trees as close to the
trunk as possible.
Willows and dogwoods make excel.
lent trees for river banks, preventing
erosion.
In this climate spraying should be
done all winter, the late fall and the
early spring; the method does not
matter just so long as you spray two
classes of enemies to trees, fungus
growth and insects. The fungus rare
" appears till the tree has been
weakened by some other cause.
A number of kinds Of sprays ana
emulsions were discussed by Mr.
Hemenway and his audience who at
his request constantly asked ques-
tons, Prune toward the end of the dor
man period, say the end Of January