340 Bulletin 256. 



Penalties are imposed for cutting and defacing trees except with the 

 consent of the warden. 



Provisions are made prohibiting owners of land from burning brush 

 near the trees. 



Pennsylvania. 



By means of a petition from a majority of the property owners on any 

 public street, the town council may require, by ordinance, the planting 

 of shade trees along that street; and on the failure of any owners to plant, 

 it may cause the planting to be done, and collect from the adjoining 

 property owners. 



Any person who cuts or injures any shade tree or other tree shall pay 

 a penalty of one to five dollars for each offense; or he may plant and 

 maintain another tree in place of the one cut or injured. 



New Jersey. 



In all municipalities there may be appointed a Commission of three 

 freeholders, without compensation, who shall have control of trees and 

 power to plant and care for shade trees on any of the public highways. 



Cost of planting, including guards around trees, to be borne by the 

 adjoining real estate. The same may be collected with the taxes. Cost 

 of maintaining to be borne by municipality. 



The foregoing arc extracts from the ordinances of the states in which 

 this question is most important. They reveal the fact that the damage 

 now being done to shade trees, to a certain extent, can be effectivelv 

 controlled without the aid of special ordinances which invoke special 

 penalties. As one writer has said, "the absence of shade trees on many 

 of our streets and highways is not due to any lack of legislative provision 

 for their planting, care and maintenance ;" it is due to a lack of stimulation 

 of public interest and enthusiasm in this work. 



The two foremost states in the Union in this work in all probability, 

 are Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and in these states the legislatures 

 have passed ordinances which provide for the care and planting of shade 

 trees on highways of townships of the first class, boroughs, and cities of 

 the commonwealths. The laws of New Jersey were passed in 1893, ^i^d 

 after lying dormant for a number of years were supplemented in 1905 

 and again twice supplemented in 1906; those of Pennsylvania were 

 passed and approved by the legislature in 1907. The following summary 

 of these state laws will illustrate ordinances which will insure careful 

 management of shade trees by empowering the Shade Tree Commission 

 if necessary to enforce additional ordinances which meet the require- 

 ments of their particular problems. 



