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INDEX 



Bronze birch borer, habits and damage 



of, 199, 219 



Brookline Shade Tree Department, 245 

 Brown-Tail Moth, 201, 211, 216, 218 

 Buckeye, Ohio, 30 



Sweet, 30 



Red, 30 

 Bur Oak, 49 



Butterfly Caterpillar, Hackberry, 208 

 Butternut, Characteristics, range and 

 adaptability of, 104 



For roadside planting, 104 

 Button-Ball tree, 34 

 Buttonwood, 34 



California laws protect nut groves and 

 fruit orchards, 97 



Live Oak, 49 



Old Redwoods, 120 



Shade Tree splendor of roads, 91 



Sycamore, 55 

 Cambridge Elms, 125 

 Camphor Tree, 58 

 Canker, Nectria Cinnabarina, 176 

 Cankerworm, 204 



Habits and Damage, 216 

 Capitols, Shade trees of world's, 19 

 Carbon disulphid, How to use, 119 



Action of, 192 

 Caring for shade trees, 131 

 Carolina Poplar, 38, 63 

 Carpenter worm, Habits and damage of, 



212,216,220 

 Caterpillar, Habits and damage of Spiny 



Elm, 202 208 



Hackberry butterfly, 208 

 Cavities, Bolt reinforcement in large, 164 



How to fill, 162 



Treatment, 161 

 Cedar apples, 182 



Cement dust injurious to foliage, 171 

 Center strip type of street planting, 72 

 Chamber of Commerce plants Memorial 



Trees, 118 



Charter Oak, Hartford's, 23 1 

 Chestnut Blight, 106 

 Chestnut borer, Two-lined Oak and, 216 

 Chestnut, Horse, 30, 64 

 Chestnut not recommended for planting, 



107 

 Chewing insects, 186 



Leaf, 187 



Chisel, Pruning, 148 

 Circumference measurement method, 



The, 235 



Cities famous for trees, 20 

 Citrus fruits, Pecans replace, 100 

 City authorities appraise shade trees, 



How, 233 

 City Beautiful, 19 



City shade tree control, 223 

 City trees, Struggle for existence of, 183 

 Colton plan of shade tree valuation, 237 

 Commission functions, How a shade tree, 



241 



Commission, Organization of a shade tree, 

 227 



Powers of, 241 

 Common and scientific names of trees, 



Use of, 27 

 Community ownership of spraying and 



other equipment, 185 

 Compressed air pumps, 193 

 Conifers, The, 65 

 Constitutional Elm, The, 124 

 Contact insecticides, 187 

 Contact sprays, Formula for various 



kinds of, 188 

 Control of street planting, Importance 



of central, 224 



Cooperation in shade tree work, 246 

 Cornwallis Oak, 124 

 Cotton wood, 38 



Borer, 220 



Dagger Moth, 218 



Cottonwood, Poplar and Willow Leaf- 

 beetle, 218 



Cottony Maple Scale, 213 

 Creosote oil spray, Uses of, 190 

 Creosote, Uses of, 145 

 Cross of Trees at Macon, Georgia, 117 

 Crotches, Splitting, 158 

 Cultivation of base soil, 132 

 Curb on tree planting, Effect of, 232 



Dagger Moth, Cottonwood, 218 

 Damage to trees by gases, 166 



From excavation, 151 

 Damage, Penalties for tree, 233 

 Diameter measurement method, 235 

 Diseases and their treatment, Tree, 172 

 Diseases of trunks, limbs and roots, 174 



Foliage, 177 



Dust injurious to trees, Cement, 171 

 Death of trees caused by gases and 



vapors, 171 

 Dentistry, Tree, 161 

 Danger from injury to street trees, 134 

 District of Columbia, Famous trees of, 



122 



Digging for transplanting, 79 

 Double action hand-pumps, 192 

 Drainage of street trees, Irrigation and, 

 84, 132 



Effect of leaking gas on trees, 167 

 Effect of street on shade tree values, 232 

 Elder, Ash-leaved Maple or Box, 32 

 Principal insects attacking, 200 



