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WILMETTE LIFE July 2, 1926 HOLDS WJLME'I"R MUST · .tractive as old Wilmette, trees should I I r. be planted on every street next spring, if at all possible. It cannot be expected that each property owner will GUARD ITS TREE ASSET know what kind to plant or how to do If left 'to private citizens planting today would be sound. Now consider- would in most · places be too close to. able work will have to be done to save gether. Beside s, trees arc not for the it. Another elm has a crotch split al- enjoy~nent of only those in front of though appearing sound as a doll;r to whose property they stand. They bethe untrained observer. You can stick long to the entire community. a wire into the center of the tree and These are some of the reason s why probe its rotten heart. plantinf! should be don e by the Yil. Stop and locate the big dead limbs lage. Cost of plant· ing should, be paid 111 some of the trees in the northeast by the assessment method like other corner of Vattman park. Sooner or pttblic improvement s. !ater,, if they are not trimmed out, one The young trees could · probably be ts gomg to drop fifty feet on the head ob tained ·from the Cook Countrv Forof some child at pla-y. est Preserve nursery. The cost· would If a cursory in ~pcction reveals so be about $8 per tree in place, or about much need in Vattman park, it can $10 for a fifty foot lot, assuming that hardly be expected that the general forest trees should be planted not condition of the village trees is good. closer than forty feet apart. \\rith As a preliminary step to caring for expert supervision, proper soi l and the tree asset of our village, a tree handling conditions would obtain and census or survey should be made. It gro\\'th cou ld be guaranteed. would show location, species. size and A further study of the problem may condition. This surveY will he started show the need of having as a permanin the ncar future by. the Boy 'scouts ent village emp loye a man who kno\\'S under the direction of an experienced trees. There i ·a lot of hunk in tree forester. doctoring-witness the shaved bark What Are Trees Worth? and the ring of tangle-foot on \Vhat arc trees \\'Orth in moneY? Go many big trees about six feet above t<! any citizen with a big fine tree in the ground, which is of about as much h1:1 front yard and ask him to name value as an Indian medicine doctor a price to permit it;-; removal. Not incanting over a sick man. Abn, m_any could he "bought" for $500. Elms -.11ray i. not infrequcnth· resorted to ot six or eight inches diameter find when feeding is more to .the pn=nt. Tht' a waiting market for planting in north quack docs the thing that makes a ..;hore estates of ir(llll $300 to $500. show. It is probable that if the Yil ~1 any of the hig trees might he In·- 1age had a high grade tree \\·ardrn pathetically priced at $1.000. · ib tree sen·ice could be hir<'cl out Such an a sset as our trees i:-; sureh· ritiz~1 s at cost and a largc . aving ei\YOrth pr~per carc-f.ccding. pruning fccted. A po,yer spray.ing outfi~ might ;11:d . praylllg. \Ve butld and take care I find pl~nt~· to do. ~prmg and fall. nn ot streets as a matter of course . ·But both vtllage and prl\·ate property. ~~ street can be built-legal proceedtngs and all-in six months. and a ~I i-.-. ~~ artha \Yhit e. \\·ho ha :-; het·n trt'C takes a hundred Years. ,·isiting ~fi ss Jo se phine Comillrt oi 1i Plant Tr~es! Rl2 Prairie a\'cnue. ha..; returned to the new territory is to be as at- . her home at Dana, Ind. it. (Continued from page 7) -.~ I DESIRABLE CITIZENS I tr; The spendthrift never helps his community because he does not save a ~art ~f his earnings. And hkewtse the miser is not a good citizen because he hoards away his money and keeps it out of circulation. The real desirable citizen is the man who saves a part of what he makes a~d yet does not deny htmself and his familv such comforts of life tha't he can afford. It is this kind of citizen that makes it possible for us to have a reservoir to finance our b~si~ess and farming en~ terpnses. Come in and let us tell y~u about saving and how you can help our community grow and prosper. magic word of romance! Where Tamerla~e wielded his power over one of. the . . greatest emptres of ancient d,ys .. 1 . Th e tn· ~ptra~ton of poets who have sung of its beaut Jts climate and orchard-laden hillsides! y, The . Chinese influence is reflected in the color' a~d destg_ns of the beautiful rugs of Samarkand s~ mhly pnzed by their American owners. ' Thousands_ ~f North Shore householders bear ~ ~ne appreCJatJon ~f the beauty and qualtties of hnental floo.r covenngs. Linle wonder that they c oose Kashtan Brothers to clean them and for them! care SAMARKAND- a Samarkand First National Bank of Wilmette T.he Home of Savings Depositors .,. 1145 Greenleaf Avenue Wilmette, Ill. T elephoDe Wilmette 1200 .