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Excerpt from A Description of the Town of Berkeley: With a History of the University of California; Presenting the Natural and Acquired Advantages of a Most Attractive Place of Residence
Although the planting season of 1880-81 was well advanced when the association was organized, very gratifying progress has been made in enlisting the active co_-operation of the intelligent people of the neighborhood. In every direction vacant lots are being fenced, shade-trees and ornamental hedges planted, and street improvements projected. The association encourages the, substitution of graceful deciduous trees for the' sidewalks, in place of the blue gum and other varieties of eucalypti, in order to secure the much needed sun shine during the rainy season. They have procured in quantities certain trees, and recommended where they shall be planted. Several hundred varieties, in cluding the wild elm, silver maple tulip tree, ash, Carolina poplar, and box elder, have been already planted along the principal streets, an in many places have replaced the blue gums, whose profusion was giving a certain monotony to the landscape. The Dwight Way railroad station has been surrounded by a neat fence, and a park of evergreen trees a quarter of an acre in extent. The lay ing out and planting are the work of the association. An avenue of evergreens is projected, to run along each side of the railroad, from the southern limit of the town to Strawberry Creek it la the intention to encourage the substitution of evergreen hedges for the usual fences of boards or white palings, and thereby give a parklike appearance to the neighborhood. The association has, there fore, offered $25 for the handsomest ornamental hedge that will serve as a division fence, Monterey cypress being barred from competition. George D. Dornin has also offered, through the association, a prize of $20 for the hand somest hedge of Monterey cypress on a. Lot of 100 feet or over, and an addi tional prize of $15 for a similar hedge on a lot of 50 feet. The shrubs are, in all'cases, to be of the season's planting. The prizes are to be awarded by a committee, composed of the President of the University, the Professor of agri culture, and the President of the Board of Education, at the annual meeting of the Association, to be held on the 30th of May, 1881. As supplemental to the material work of the organization, there will be a course of monthly lectures. The initial address of the course was delivered in January, by William C. Bartlett of the San Francisco Bulletin, upon the Ideal Village. The lowing additional from the graceful pen of Mr. Bartlett was printed in the Bulletin of March 19th, 1880, and happily introduces the new movement.
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