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law modeled after the New Jersey statute. Within the last 

 three or four years the cities of Buffalo, St. Louis, Chicago, 

 New Orleans, and Pittsburg have established shade-tree 

 departments. 



The Harrisburg Patriot, in an editorial, January 13, 1909, 

 said: "We do not see how any one .... can doubt the 

 wisdom of a speedy acceptance of the law of 1907 authori 

 zing the placing of all shade-trees in charge of a Shade-Tree 

 Commission. The fine results obtained in East Orange 

 and elsewhere .... could never have been obtained by 

 individual effort at any outlay of money. But it has been 

 demonstrated in East Orange that it is less expensive to 

 get and maintain a splendid, harmonious, and beautiful 

 system of shade-trees, than it is to have such a haphazard 

 arrangement as prevails in most cities where great pos 

 sibilities are ruined sometimes through indifference and 

 inattention, but more often through ignorance.'* 



To supply the needs of the growing demand for informa 

 tion regarding the planting, care, and control of shade-trees 

 in towns and cities is the aim of this book. It is the result 

 of the study of shade-trees in a great many towns and 

 cities of the country and experience gained in the ad 

 ministration of the work of the East Orange Shade-Tree 

 Commission since its organization. While in the prepar 

 ation of the book the author has used for reference the 

 bulletins of agricultural experiment stations, treating of 

 some phases of the subject, the material has to him taken 

 on a living form through actual practise. The principles 

 laid down are of general application, and it is the writer's 

 hope that the book may prove helpful in spreading the tree- 

 planting movement throughout the United States. 



With the increase of the number of shade-tree depart- 



