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possible to devise means by which trees may be saved. 

 The writer remembers a street in East Orange that was to 

 be macadamized and curbed. As proposed, the street was 

 to have a thirty-foot roadway. To have carried out that 

 plan would have necessitated the cutting down of five red 

 maples, about twenty inches in diameter. On consultation 



FIG. 29. A "well" constructed about an elm-tree when grade was raised. 



with the Shade-Tree Commission, the city engineer finally 

 decided to make the roadway twenty-six feet in width, and 

 the trees were permitted to remain. 



Changing Grade. When the street grade is raised or 

 lowered, and there are trees along the line, a problem again 

 arises as to the disposition of the trees. A good deal 

 depends upon the condition of the existing trees. If the 

 grade of a street is lowered about a foot, the trees can safely 

 remain. When the grade is lowered considerably, and the 

 trees are less than a foot in diameter, it will pay to lower 



