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are "crotched" and split. Others are afflicted with huge wounds 

 and some with large holes from which the trees are rapidly going 

 into decay. I think that in the city of New York there is a due 

 appreciation of the park trees and, surely, the people cannot af- 

 ford to lose them. But it was in this city that I learned a lesson 

 of a very serious nature, which seems to apply to all the cities, 

 and explains why the trees are in such a condition. Read care- 



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Photo 110 

 A Bank of English Ivy. 



fully what follows. I think you will be satisfied that all states 

 should frame laws so that the park commissioners may be en- 

 dowed with powers by which they can produce the best results 

 on the trees of their respective communities. 



On June 13, '06, I had the pleasure of giving my stereopticon 

 lecture under the auspices of the North-Side Board of Trade of 

 New York City. Hon. Geo. M. \Yalgrove, commissioner of 

 parks of the borough of Bronx, was present, and asked me to 

 call on him at his office at Claremont Park. I did so. "We looked 



