NO TREE SHOULD BE PLANTED WITHIN SIX METRES OF ANY MASONRY WORK, AND SPECIAL CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN FOR PLANTING TREES, AT ROAD CURVES AND CROSSINGS, SO THAT THEY DO NOT OBSTRUCT THE VISION

Nature is supreme and one should not Act against the natural reforms of the demand for good work and conduct preferred by the best suited climate change and natural evergreen suitable plantation for the excellent reforms too suggested by the department of arboriculture. As such a plant requires good depth of soil to enable its roots system to develop and this depends upon the kind of plant. If the roots of a tree cannot go deep down they spread side ways. Timber trees require a depth of four to nine metres, fruit trees 3.5 metres to 4.5 metres, grain crops 1.2 to 1.5 metres and ordinary garden crops 0.45 to 0.90 metre. Sandy loams or clay loams are fertile and suitable for tree growth. Keeping in view the required depth of the roots of different plants mentioned above, it is necessary to take cognisance of the depth before the plants are planted at a specific place, where it should be avoided to plant these plants very near of the building infrastructure, failing which it may effect the foundation and plinth of the surrounding areas building infrastructure. Suitable spacing for road side trees must be kept from 9to 15 metres according to the species of trees, the average being taken accordingly and no tree should be planted within 6 metres of any masonry work and this distance should be increased, as the roots of these three grow into the joints of masonry and damage them. Keeping in view the above guidelines of the suitable spacing special care should be taken for planting trees::-- Er Fateh Chand Guleria, Director, RTI welfare Association , registered number HPCD, 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal pradesh, phone number, 9459334377