INDEX 



255 



Pruning, Necessity of, 139 



Reasons for, 138 



Results of, 139 



Root and branch, 138 



Time for, 139 



Tools, 141 



Top, 139 

 Pruning tools required, Number of, 147 

 Pruning wounds, Protection of, 144 

 Pubescent oak kermes, 217 



Red maple, 32, 59 



Red Oak, 45 



Redwood, Gen. Sherman, 120 



Reinforcement in large cavities, 164 



Remembrance, The Roads of, 115 



Rent, Pecan harvest pays, 99 



Repair of shade trees, 156 



Replacement of shade trees, 43 



Replacement value of shade trees, 234 



Resistance to gas, 170 



Roadbuilding by states, 115 



Roads of Remembrance endorsed by 



White House, 115,116 

 Roadside planting by clubs and schools, 



116 



Japanese walnut for, 105 



Trees adapted for general, 92 

 Roadside Trees, Desirable, 92 

 Roadsides, Nut and fruit trees on Euro- 

 pean, 97 

 Root absorption, 133 

 Root-prune before planting, 81 

 Root-rot, 175 



Roots injured by sewers and pipes, 150 

 Roth, Filibert, 231 

 Roth Method, The, 23 5 

 Russo-American Oak in White House 



grounds, 121 

 Rust, Appearance of, 181 



Fruiting bodies of, 182 



San Jose scale, 197, 202, 21 1, 219 

 Saprophyte, 172 

 Sap-sucking insects, 197, 199 



Work and control of, 187 

 Saving gas injured trees, 168 

 Sawfly, Large Elm, 205 

 Scale, Cottony Maple, 213 



European Elm, 207 



Gloomy, 214 



Obscure, 217 



Oyster-shell, 201, 210, 211, 213, 220 



San Jose, 197, 202,211,219 



Terrapin, 214 



Tulip tree soft, 222 

 Scarlet Oak, 47 



Selection of trees for planting, 41 

 Sewer and pipe injury to roots, 150 



Shade tree commission, How to organize, 

 226, 227 



Financing of, 227 



Duties of, 241 

 Shade tree injury from atmospheric influ- 

 ences, 169 

 Shade tree legislation, 240 

 Shade tree planting, 76 

 Shade tree splendor of California roads, 91 

 Shade tree valuation, factors in, 232 



The Roth method, 235 

 Shade trees and the law, 240 

 Shade trees, Enemies of, 149 



Legal value of, 231 



Methods of determining value, 232 



The Roth method, 235 



Circumference measurement method, 



235 



Diameter measurement method, 235 

 Square-foot basal area method, 235 

 Square-inch basal area method, 236 

 Municipal control of, 223 

 Pruning and trimming, 138 

 The placing of, 68 

 Utility of, 19 



Selected List covering adaptability, 

 soil requirements and general 

 characteristics with reference to 

 street planting: 



Ailanthus, or Tree of Heaven, 66 



American or White Elm, 50 



Ash-leaved Maple (Box Elder) 62 



Basswood, or American Linden, 52 



Beech, 64 



Big-leaf Maple, 61 



Black Locust, 65 



Bur Oak, 49 



California Live Oak, 49 



California Sycamore, 55 



Camphor Tree, 58 



Carolina Poplar, 63 



English Elm, 51 



European Linden, 53 



Ginkgo, 51 



Green Ash, 57 



Hackberry, 66 



Honey Locust, 6j 



Horse Chestnut, 64 



Huntington Elm, 51 



Laurel Oak, 48 



Live Oak, 47 



Lombardy Poplar, 62 



London Plane, 54 



Magnolia, 58 



Mountain Ash, 64 



Norway Maple, 58 



Oriental Plane, 55 



Palmetto, 58 



Pecan, 64 



