33 CONNECTICUT EXPERIMENT STATION REPORT, IO.OO. 



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THE ' PROTECTION K3F SHADE TREES./ ^^# 

 BY E. H. JENKINS AND W. E. BRITTON. 



In November, 1900, a Bulletin on this subject was issued by 

 this Station. The Bulletin, which is in substance reprinted in 

 the following pages, was in the form of a report on the shade 

 trees of New Haven made to the Mayor of the city by a com- 

 mittee of which the writers were members ; the other members 

 being Prof, Graves of the Yale Forestry School and Mr. Henry 

 T. Blake, President of the New Haven Park Commission. 



The report in its main features is applicable to most of the 

 cities, towns and villages of this State. 



In every one of them may be found the same mutilations by 

 vandals, the same evidence of lack of care and skill in planting, 

 pruning and trimming and the same insect enemies. 



In many of them too, may be found an increasing respect for 

 shade trees, a desire for their better protection and more active 

 interest in tree-planting. 



In view of these facts and of the fact that much of the work 

 on this Report was done by members of the Station staff, it 

 is altogether proper that the Station should bring the results of 

 this work to the attention of those individuals and communities 

 which are reached by its bulletins. 



In the smallest village, as well as in the largest city, trees can 

 only be protected by the creation of an intelligent public senti- 

 ment on the subject. Small villages can more easily produce 

 and maintain exceptionally fine shade trees than can cities, where 

 "modern improvements" do so much to damage them, and few 

 material things add more to the attractiveness of small country 

 places and their value to those who are seeking temporary or 

 permanent homes, than well-shaded and well-kept streets. 



In regard to the illustrations following page 338, Figs. 7, 8 and 

 9 of Plate XI, and Plates XIV and XV, are from electrotypes 

 kindly supplied by Dr. E. P. Felt, State Entomologist of New 

 York. Fig. 17, Plate XVI, was used in Bulletin 121 of this 

 Station, 1895, by permission of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. Figure 16, Plate XVI, was published in the 

 Report of this Station for 1896, from an original photograph. 



All others are from original photographs taken in the streets 

 of New Haven and are fair examples of certain present condi- 

 tions mentioned in the following report. 



