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"Them" Trees in Seymour Park.

The Beatrice Republican says:
Dr. George L. Miller, of The Omaha Herald,
is said to have the finest grove and the
largest variety of trees of any gentleman in
the state.

This is probably not true. The trouble
with "them" trees is that they are not
fairly treated by their planter. They don't
have the care that they should have.
Scores of thousands of them don't need
any care, but the young fellows cry for it,
and cry in vain. This superbly democratic
administration may have something to do
with it.

The editor of The Herald warns all
tree-planting fiends to keep away from
"them" trees for two or three years more.
He wants time to make them presentable
on account of the great and patriotic man
of New York, in honor of whose name
they have been grouped and named as
Seymour Park. Manager Holdrege will
have his direct railroad line out there next
year. Preparations for the marriage of
them with the outside world must be made
in the interval.

Professor Bessey, of the University,
who gave the people some
highly important information a few
days ago about an enemy of the apple tree,
has his attention called to a fact about a
singular assault that has been made upon
the elderly members of our Seymour Park
family of cottonwoods. At the age of
about twelve years since they were burned
down to their roots by fire. They are apparently
dying. They break down in their
trunks in ordinary winds and the branches
show premature death of the usually opulent
foliage. Perhaps forty acres of these lately
stalwart cottowoods, standing high up in
air, and promising in ten years more a
good return, are vanishing away. Professor
Bessey knows the ordinarily hardy
nature of this indigenous, hardy, much-
despised, but really useful and beautiful
tree, and no man in the west can tell the
people more about the fate that threatens
the Seymour Park family than he can, as
The Herald is glad to take this occasion
to say. It thinks this case so universal and
important that it brings it to his attention
in this public way that it may do some
good to the farmers who, of all men, will
best know to appreciate [?]