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Orleans. Sharon. Wareham. 



Peabody. Sherborn. Watertown. 



Pembroke. Shirley. Wayland. 



Pepperell. Shrewsbury. Wellesley. 



Plymouth. Somerville. Wenham. 



Plympton. Southborough. Westborough. 



Quincy. Stoneham. West Bridgewater. 



Eandolph. Stoughton. West Newbury. 



Raynham. Stow. Westford. 



Reading. Sudbury. Weston. 



Revere. Swampscott. Westwood. 



Rockland. Tewksbury. Weymouth. 



Rockport. Topsfield. Whitman. 



Rowley. Townsend. Wilmington. 



Salem. Tyngsborough. Winchester. 



Salisbury. Upton. Winthrop. 



Sandwich. Wakefield. Woburn. 



Saugus. Walpole. Worcester. 



Scituate. Waltham. Yarmouth. 



SPECIAL WORK IN PARKS. 



By the amendment to the original gypsy moth act, adopted 

 by the Legislature in 1907, the superintendent was authorized, 

 subject to the approval of the Governor, to give special assist- 

 ance in caring for the moth pests in parks, cemeteries, wood- 

 lands and other places of public resort, where there was special 

 danger of the spread of the caterpillars upon persons or teams. 

 This provision has enabled us to arrange for co-operative work 

 for the preservation of several of our most beautiful parks which 

 have been devastated by the swarming gypsy moth caterpillars. 

 Co-operative work of this kind has been arranged in the case 

 of the Lynn Woods Reservation, particularly for the protec- 

 tion of the trees along the main drives, and of certain valuable 

 pines and hemlocks at Pine Banks Park in Maiden and Mel- 

 rose, where a large number of beautiful pines had already been 

 killed by the moth ; in clearing up and putting in condition for 

 effective spraying operations Sewall's Woods Park and Ell 

 Pond Park at Melrose; the protection of the fine hemlocks and 

 other trees in " Shaker Glen," so called, in Woburn ; and in 

 making an important beginning in wiping out the large gypsy 

 moth colony which now threatens Prospect Hill Park, Waltham. 



