A Feeling Protest

The following communication calis atteution to something that needs attention. Many residents of our city who have had the beauty of their trees almost entirely ruined by the slashing of wood butchers who had no idea of how a tree should be trimmed, will be in hearty synipathy with this writer : Ed. Courier: - To trim off dead branches is an advantage; intelligent treatment may enhance their beauty ; but to cut and slash, with no regard to Symmetry, merely for the sake of niing, is ïiot only unwise, but worse. I think that many luxurious, and valuable branches have been sacriflced on our streets, for want of care and correct taste. Graceful lines and artistic contour, such as only nature can produce, and that, too, in many years, have been effaced, where it was useless for property owners, even to suggest with any hope öf gaining a respectfnl hearing. IL those persons in charge of this work, could knovv with what extreme care this kind of trimrning is done in New Haven, Conn., (Elm City) for instance, (the loveliest of Eastern cities) and note the beautiful results, even if considered only from an artistic stand point ! If, too, they could know how every lover of Mature is charmed by the beauty of our city as expressed in its stretching vistas, its play of sunlight, and wealth of green shade, they would surely realize the importance of very wise care in the treatment of those valuable trees, ïhere is no beauty in a tree which is riinmed up to look like a feather duster tied to a mast head, brushing up against the "naked heavens."