Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-09
Shade Trees 4
For the Home

that you work with a young giant, q
future power, that will be able to
beautify your home, or take away the
fresh air and light, from the living
rooms and spoil all the charm OF
your place. Before planting a tree
we therefore must study the differ
ent species and find out what will
be the most suitable tree for our
special place.
Figure on its size, if it will inter-
fere with the light and fresh air from
the living rooms, and if the shape
of the tree is the very one needed to
unite the house with the surrounding
landscape.
If our front yards are very limited
we ought to get together with our
neighbors to organize uniform
street planting. A street with a uni
form planting will give the so highly
artistic and beautiful gothic arch.
The shaded street will be a splendid
background for our little lawns, and
the colors of our roses and other
flowers will come to their greatest
beauty.
Trees are the frame of a landscape
picture. Just think of a beautiful
painting put in a frame made of
twenty different frame samples, un-
even in size, makeup and color--a
onglomerated mass.
A street with ununiform planting
gives the same effect. Unequal sizes,
colors and shapes spoil the looks of
street and don't help to beautify
our home grounds.
In southern Oregon, where the
trees make such splendid growth, we
should not plant the trees like pop
lars, cottonwoods, elders, etc., but
we must take the better trees like
white elm, cork elm, linden, syca-
more, black walnut, sweet chestnut,
Norway maple, black locust, etc.
Even if these trees grow slower, they
give better results. They-become real
beauties. All the very fast growing
trees live short lives. Their shape
and leaves are very often not to be
compared with those of the slow
growing trees. Trees like the horse
chestnut, tulip tree and catalpa are
the trees for single planting. Their
flowers can be enjoyed the best if
the whole tree can be seen. The
horse chestnut will make a mighty
monument, with its branches close
to the ground. Trees like weeping
willows are most beautiful if planted
near a pond or brook. They like to
admire their own beauty in the mir
rorlike surface OF the water. A
weeping willow on a lawn is also a
splendid decoration ii the lawn is
large enough.
The evergreens like pines and frs
are unfit for street planting. When
the trees grow bigger we have to
strip the lower branches. That gives
us pole with green bunch on top.
The broad-leaved evergreens like
our laurel or madrone are splen-
did all-around trees. The shape
Of the tree, the bark, the leaves, the
flowers, the berries, every part is
beautiful.
Rhododendrons and halmias car
be used as background. The glossy
leaves form a beautiful solid wall
Single specimens also do we'll, a,
their flowers are unsurpassed by any
other shrubs. The rhododendron!
and halmias are not enough used in
our landscape work.
On small lawns single weepinl
mulberry or cutleaf weeping birch OIL
a Japanese dwarf maple are very dec
orative.
If you plant trees be optimistic
enough to remember that you accom-
plish something that will stay anC
grow for couple of hundred years
and that you are doing something fol
yourself and the coming generation
But never plant too many trees. A'
soon as we have to struggle for ligh
and air with the trees they are oul
enemies.
A tree planted with judgment will
give a character to place, the mair
thing we want in landscape.
c. LELY.