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PLAYGROUNDS too often lack trees and shrubs. The shade afforded 

 by the trees is very necessary during the hot summer months when 

 the playgrounds should be rendering the greatest enjoyment to the 

 children of the community. Planting trees and maintaining them in a 

 healthy and vigorous condition upon the playgrounds is something of 

 a problem. Foresters can outline methods for obtaining good results. 



SCHOOL GROUNDS everywhere need trees. It is desirable to surround 

 the buildings in which the youth of the State spend a large part of 

 their time with fine trees properly planted and cared for. The im- 

 pression made by beautiful surroundings is as essential to the proper 

 development of our children as the providing of comfortable and 

 sanitary buildings and good text books and teachers. School Boards, 

 teachers and children as a rule are glad to improve school grounds 

 if there is some one to suggest how this may be done with reasonable 

 expenditure. The College of Forestry at Syracuse will be very glad 

 to assist in helping to lay out school grounds in the city and in the 

 country so that proper provisions may be made for a good growth 

 of trees and shrubs. 



VILLAGE CEMETERIES are conspicuous usually on account of the col- 

 lection of a great number of poor trees. The reduction of this col- 

 lection to an assortment of the desirable varieties and the planting of 

 additional trees are questions on which the College Foresters can often- 

 times suggest the proper treatment without great difficulty. 



OTHER FORESTRY PROBLEMS may be solved by getting in touch with 

 the College. Some of the most important are connected with the 

 improvement or development of municipal water supply, city reserva- 

 tions, public groves, municipal forest nurseries, etc. As an example 

 of some of the work being done by the College in cooperation with 

 villages in the State, the College has recently made a survey of the 

 shade trees of Fayetteville. This survey included the parks, public 

 squares, streets, cemeteries and some of the private home grounds. 

 A plan was made showing definitely what can be done in the way of 

 preserving the old trees and planting new ones. An inspection was 

 made by Foresters from the College of land surrounding the town 

 reservoir and a plan drawn for the reforestation of this area. 

 Foresters and students from the College will plant some 10,000 trees 

 on the water shed this spring. During the carrying out of the work 

 in Fayetteville, the College gave a series of illustrated lectures show- 

 ing the existing conditions and the proposed improvement. 



SHADE TREE SURVEYS of a general nature can sometimes be made 

 quickly by Foresters in a way that will be valuable to cities and small 



