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dying in those smaller parks might be preserved, some of them, 

 for hundreds of years. To have the fine trees of Central Park 

 go into premature decay through neglect or from political evils 

 is a thing that the metropolis cannot afford. The same might be 

 said of any other city. To allow the selfish rottenness of poli- 

 tics, indirectly, to ruin the park trees is a thing that no thought- 

 ful American should tolerate. Who will "move" to save the city 

 park trees? 



There is no way in which a correct estimate could be made 

 of the damage done in this country by the ''Tree butcher." 

 Look at his criminal work on the Poplar tree in Photo 101. 

 The fool made up his mind that he would "make them branch 

 out !" Compare his brutal work with Nature's accomplishments 

 in the Lime tree in Photo 115, and the arching of a street, as 

 shown in Photo 116. 



Photo 116, An arched Street. 



