STREET TREE-PLANTING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 95, 26 August 1913, Page 8

STREET TREE-PLANTING.

IN BROADWAY NORTH. The Stratford Borough Council is iomewhat chary of street tree-plant-.ng schemes, this attitude being chiefty attributable to the fact that an .experiment made in Broadway South vvas not a success. In the case of Broadway South the advocates ol oree-plantiiig hold that; the (experiment c.tiled because the-trees were not oi i suitable variety,"apd were planted .n the street when not sufficiently xrown. With some difficulty.the Mayor (Mr iV. P. Kirkwood) has now persuaded ;he Borough Council, to undertake jnother tree-planting experiment, and t is hoped that the methods followed a ill ensure its success. The piece of >ad selected was Broadway North ram Pembroke Road to Flint Road, ind a fair number of trees have been planted. The trees are sycamores, \vhich, it is claimed, grow anywhere; tnd as the trees are about fifteen feet high, they will have every chance jf surviving the ills to which trees in streets are heir. The trees are being planted a short distance out from the water-table and are ninety feet apart: md it is hoped that when the Show is m the footpath will be nicely shaded. The next section of street to be danted is Broadway South, from )punake Road to Warwick Road.