A PLEA FOR TREE-PLANTING.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 118, 19 July 1873, Page 8

A PLEA FOR TREE-PLANTING.

Farmers, plant trees. Let nothing prevent it. If you have net a liberal supply of fruit plaut at once. If your house stands naked and unprotected from the heat of summer and the winds of winter, plant at once liberally. You may design to sell, and so excuse yourself. No matter; it will then prove the best investment you can make ; and you may in the end act wisely, letting well enough alone, and “ stick” to the old home. If you conclude to plant ornamental trees, you will doubtless have some model in your mind. You will copy some plan you have seen. The probability is that you will be guided by what you have seen in some village or city. And if it is a country home that has pleased you, and so become your ideal, it is likely that the plan was taken from the t-own, and not the best that could be adopted for ornamenting a country home. Think you the man who has tastefully adorned his grounds in Village or city would have confined himself to a few feet had he been the owner of broad acres ? I think not. Do not then make the mistake of confining your efforts at ornamentation to a mere pen between your house and the public roads. Let your grounds be spacious, indicating that you are neither cramped for room or destitute of taste. Again, do not make the mistake of supposing all your finest trees must be huddled close around the house. The range of vision will take in their beauty at several rods distance at least, and you should plant leaving open lawn and spaces through which to take in the finest views that the surrounding country affords. Bemember your beautiful little trees, just from the nursery, will not always remain but a few feet high. Set them as if they were already from 20 to 50 feet high, and required space in proportion. This will leave your ground looking naked and open at first, which should be remedied by planting liberally to be cut away as those designed to remain permanently require more room. In this way you wifi almost from the start, have shade and wind brakes; and as time rolls on, by constantly cutting away, your grounds never have that choked and i neglected look too common when plant- I ing has been undertaken.—B. F. P., i “ New York Tribune.” j