1870.J '343 [Price. 



over to said Park Commission may be applied to the purchase of other 

 trees ; and such other trees as well as oaks may be distributed not only to 

 other Public Parks but to City Squares, and in exchanges with other Pub- 

 lic Nurseries, and in planting the grounds of Institutions of Learning and 

 Charity, to any extent that will not impair the primary purposes of said 

 agreement of March, 1870. 



In respect to the intention of Elliot Cresson's will, lo wit, "in planting 

 and renewing shade trees, especially in situations now exposing my fellow 

 citizens to the heat of the sun," the testator is to be taken to mean the 

 greatest good to his fellow citizens by the shade of trees, and that would 

 be where the}^ most frequent, consistently with the requirements of busi- 

 ness. It would not be to place trees in the thronged streets where such 

 plantings would be obstructive and mask all business signs ; but would prop- 

 erly be in all our public squares ; in streets where people are yet so few as to 

 permit the growth of trees without unduly obstructing passengers ; cer- 

 tainly in the East Park, as Mr. Cresson knew it ; and with a necessary ex- 

 pansion as business shall extend, to drive away such planting, and to follow 

 the growth of the city, as the citizens move outward, and the Parks as they 

 shall become more central and thronged. Charities are to be executed as 

 near the intention as reasonably practicable ; City and Girard heirs, 

 9 Wright's Reps. 9 ; and follow the growth and needs of their objects. 



The Park Commission have from the Michaux legacy made importations 

 that have given them the best collection of young and rare oaks in the 

 country, containing about 1200 growing trees. 



From the income of the Cresson legacy they have supplied two hun- 

 dred dollars for trees in Independence Square, and have voted six hundred 

 trees for the other Public Squares, from the Park Nursery ; and two hun- 

 dred and fifty trees for planting round the grounds of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, and the University Hospital. The contiguous streets 

 opened through the Almshouse ground, and elsewhere as new streets shall 

 be opened, or built upon, might be supplied with trees from the Park 

 Nursery. 



There are now growing in the Park Nursery nearly eighty thousand trees 

 and shrubs, of which about thirty thousand are ol a size to plant out. Of the 

 latter, there are, o{ Arbor Vita: American, 5,000; Siberia, 711; Tom Thumb, 

 do., 1,047; Globe, do., 150; Hovey, do., 350; of White Pine, 350; Australian 

 Pine, 200; Scotch Pine, 200; Balsam Fir. 600; Junipers, 370; Norway 

 Spruce, 2,400; White do., 850; Hemlock, 500; Golden Willow, 32; Sweet 

 Gum, 350; Tulip Poplar, 700; Cypress, 3G0; Forsythea, 400; Althea Var., 

 200; Mahonia, 30; Althea, 5,200; Norway Maple, 500; Privet, 150;Euro])ean 

 Larch, 30; European Birch, 240; English Elm, 400; Sugar Maple, 350; 

 American Ash, 800; American Elm, 1,000; Kentucky Coffee Tree, 100; 

 European Oaks, 800; American Chestnut, 25; Hornbeam, 3,128; American 

 Beech, 50; European Beech, 2,000; Turkey Oaks, 350; Mist Tree, 200; 

 American Larch, 200; Green Poplar, 96; Silver Maple, 440. 



The City Councils and other oflBcials will be authorized to draw on the 

 above stock of trees, to the extent of the fulfilment of the trusts under the 



