138 GYPSY AND BROWN-TAIL MOTHS. [Jan. 



During the year 1906 General Lawrence has taken care of 

 most of the territory in the city of Medford bounded on the 

 west by land of Shepherd Brooks, Oak Grove Cemetery, Woburn 

 Street and Hastings Lane ; on the south by High Street to the 

 square; on the east by Forest Street; and <>n the north by the 

 Border Road of the Middlesex Fells reservation, excepting such 

 home estates as their owners have protected, and one large lot 

 of woodland on Forest Street unfortunately not satisfactorily 

 treated. The territory cared for comprises 664 acres, of which 

 580 acres are woodland. 



He has taken care of 154 acres of woodland and several home 

 estates east of Forest Street, and of a number of estates south 

 of the Mystic River. 



In Winchester he has cared for 101 acres east of Highland 

 Avenue and south of the Border Road. 



In his work on all this territory, comprising 919 acres, he 

 has applied, with the exception of the use of Cook's tree pro- 

 tectors, the same methods he has used on his own lands, where 

 the moths are to-day practically under control. The operations 

 have included the felling of trees to thin the woods, trimming 

 trees (especially of dead wood), cutting underbrush to thin it, 

 protecting trees with bands of Tanglefoot, burlapping trees, 

 spraying foliage with arsenate of lead to poison caterpillars, the 

 destruction of caterpillars under burlaps and elsewhere by hand 

 and otherwise, crushing pupse, creosoting the egg clusters of 

 tin 1 gypsy moths and destroying the nests of the brown-tail 

 ninths. 



General Lawrence has put Cook's tree protectors on the 

 trees for 1/2 mile on Forest Street, from the square to the estate 

 of Edward W. Mitchell ; and has banded with Tanglefoot the 

 rest of the trees on the street as far as Border Road. He has 

 also put the protectors on the trees on Highland Avenue, Water 

 Street, Oakland Street. Ilidi Street from the square to Woburn 

 Street, Woburn Street, and Winthrop Street from Winthm]) 

 Square to Oak Grove Cemetery, - n total distance of 4 miles 

 of streets well lined on both sides with trees. Several thousand 

 ('i.k's protectors have been elsewhere applied to )!-. mostly 

 larire and isolated, to insure lasting results. 



