Tree Planting.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4143, 21 June 1892, Page 2

Tree Planting.

(To'this Editor).'/ : Sib.—l notice, that organised annual tree planting is going on in several of your Wairarapa townships, and in coming through Greytown the other day—which plaoe must be a very pretty rural town, in summer time—l noticed trees on each side of the road in several of the highways I traversed. But one thing struck me, and it is to ifc l wish briefly to allude. It-is to the questionable judgment of placing trees some distance out from the fences in comparatively narrow road?. Between the fence and the trees there will not be room for a footpath when the trees grow, and tbe effect, too, will be to make the vehicleway narrow, and, in winter, damp, With wide streets it is possible and very beautifying to have rows of trees dividing the footpathsin true boulevard style, but surely in Greytown and in some of your other townships where space is limited, tbe trees would have been better placed right against the fences, leaving the whole width of roadway and pathway available, I am not certain, but I think a resident gave me some idea that this latter

plan was now being adopted in Grey* town, In some cases, where owners would agree to it, advantage might be gained by putting the trees just inside the fences, but Btill to that there is some objection,, for once on private land.tbere would be no right of inter* ference to prevent the destruction or the removal of trees, It must not be understood from my thus writing in a critical ivay that I am an enemy of public tree planting, On the contrary I think Arbor Day a great institution, and in America, where recently I passed several years, I had many opportunities of notioing its beneficial results At Greytown the. day I was there, I was much

impiesßed with the extent of tree growth there was about the township, and it must do much to beautify the streets and make them attractive to both residents and visitors. I am, eto, Walter Y, Hudson. Masterton, 20th June.