LARGE TREES IN FRONT GARDENS.
Onk of the most common blunders id town and suburbs is the growing of a huge tree close to the windows, shutting out light and air, and making the house a fever trap or a breeding place for consumption, headache, bad appetite, and a thirst for stimulants to counteract the depression caused by the darkness, damp, and dirt, which are necessary consequences of a tree near the windows. In many cases the house baa been brought to the tree, and it has been spared because of its age and venerabienees. In other cases the tree has been brought to the house, and has grown very prettily at first, and now must be endured because it was planted, perhaps, by some one now beyond rebuke for so gravely erring against all good judgment. A writer in this paper has declared that men are better than trees, and as a subscriber to that doctrine, we would implore readers whoso entrance courts are injuriously occupied with large trees to have them cut down, for the place can soon be made smart without them, and in many cases might bo greatly improved j while their removal would make the house more healthy, light and air being not less important to health than food, warmth, and a due proportion of rest and exercise.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 113, 1 October 1873, Page 3
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