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These numbers are altogether too small, for there are at least 

 a hundred commiunities in the State which have shade trees to 

 be looked after. The effort of the members of the Federation, 

 and of the Forest Commission, is to increase the membership of 

 the former and thereby extend its usefulness. The advantages 

 that membership offers are, an opportunity to discuss problems, 

 needs' and possibilities with others who have to deal with sim- 

 ilar situations, and, through concerted action, to reach desired 

 ends. One of the tasks that the Federation has set itself is to 

 secure a revision of the State shade tree laws, by which the 

 difficulties that have been encountered by some communities in 

 applying the present acts may be overcome and the tried-out 

 principles of the law of 1893 ma ^e universally applicable. The 

 Secretary of the Federation is Mr. William Solotaroff, East 

 Orange. 



The greatest difficulty that a local Shade Tree Commission 

 finds at the beginning of its work is to get the necessary money. 

 No great sunn is needed in any case, but it is important to 

 recognize that very little can be done in a work of this kind with- 

 out some money. To their credit and advantage many of the 

 communities represented in the Shade Tree Federation have 

 made provision for maintaining an effective organization by the 

 appointment of capable men to conduct the work. In some 

 instances these officials are named as superintendents or secre- 

 taries, in others they are called foresters, an unfortunate mis- 

 nomer. I venture to use this opportunity to suggest that the title 

 of any such city or park official be "Arborist" It is a good 

 English word indicative of what is done. 



STATE AID IN SHADE TREE WORK. 



By the legislation of last winter the Forest Commission is now 

 specifically authorized to give attention, and a part of its 

 appropriation, to shade tree interests. It is accordingly prepared 

 to detail a forester experienced in shade tree work to the service 

 of any community that asks for such help. This service will 

 ordinarily be limited as to time and free of cost, though special 



