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breaks is that when it is planted it generally burns on the south- 

 west side because it is not protected from the sun ; then it be- 

 comes a diseased tree, and the winds come and break it. I know 

 some of the most beautiful avenues in the United States planted 

 with soft maple trees, and the most beautiful avenue I ever saw 

 was planted with red maple. There is no reason in the world 

 why we should not raise more of the white maple trees. It re- 

 tains its leaves much later in the fall than the elm, and the elm is 

 apt to turn rusty in the fall. I can show you an avenue in 

 Minneapolis planted on one side with elm and on the other side 

 with maple, and one is as large as the other. There are as many 

 broken limbs on the elm as there are on the maple. The reason 

 we do not plant more of the maple is because we think they will 

 break. Prof. Green has a row of maple trees that is a joy to 

 my eyes every time I go to visit him. They are perfect in shape, 

 they are growing rapidly, and he has one of the most beautiful 

 avenues I ever saw. 



Prof. Green : Right along this line it may be interesting to 

 know how much a street tree is considered worth, how much a 

 man will take for it when it has been in the street ten to fifteen 

 years. That has to be decided sometimes. The gaslight .com- 

 pany put in some mains out our way and quite a good many 

 trees were killed. The gas company settled that question with 

 one of my neighbors. They did not take the case into court, but 

 they paid him $ioo for three box elder trees, fifteen years old 

 planted 8 to lo feet apart. 



Mr. C. E. Older: A number of years ago I was in Chicago 

 and saw a lot of trees set out with limbs cut back and wound 

 with hay ropes. I asked them what the idea was of putting ropes 

 aroiwid the trees. They said the ropes were put on until the cir- 

 culation was established. They left those hay ropes on until they 

 rotted, and they claimed they never were affected with sun scald 

 as the maple trees are that we plant. You take a soft maple tree 

 and set it out on the prairie, and it will sun scald the first few 

 weeks it is set out. When I set them out, I wind them with bur- 

 lap and tie it with fine string, and I leave that on until the next 

 year. 



If the trees need manure it may be put on any time during the winter, or 

 toward spring. The quantity should be regulated by the condition of the soil 

 and the apparent needs of the trees, as shown by the growth. If the manure 

 is coarse the ground may usually be fairly well covered out a few feet beyond 

 the ends of the branches, and if the trees ^re large no harm will be done if the 

 entire surface of the ground is covered. The more strawy the manure the 

 better it is for the purpose. 



