THE 



NATURE-STUDY REVIEW 



DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO ALL SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF NATURE IN 

 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS 



Vol. 7 



February, 1911 



No. 2 



THE SHADE TREE PROTECTORS' LEAGUE OF NEWARK, N.J. 



By AGNES V. LUTHER, Director Science Department, Normal School, Newark N, J. 

 WHAT IT IS 



A league of school children organized to aid and protect the 

 street trees of Newark, New Jersey. A band of over a thousand 



children divided into chapters who 

 this past summer waged active war- 

 fare on marauding insects, gave 

 first aid to thirsty trees during the 

 drought and vigorously stirred the 

 earth at the base of the street trees 

 to give the roots a chance to 

 breathe as well as to conserve the 

 moisture. 



Not content with constructive 

 work alone the children established 

 themselves tree guardians and 

 quickly acquainting themselves with 

 the law, prevented tree injuries and 

 courteously stood their ground 

 with linemen, pavement layers and 

 careless drivers, whom they saw 

 endangering the trees, until the of- 

 fenders threw up their hands and decided that while they had 

 hoped to escape the eye of the city custodians, the children were 

 everywhere and could not be shaken off. 

 HOW IT BEGAN. 



Mr. Carl Bannwart, the Secretary of the 

 Shade Tree Commission of Newark, N. J., 

 leaves no stone unturned in his enthusiasm to 

 aid the city's proteges, the trees, "whose stately 

 growing columns and overarching living rustling 

 canopies of green are such potent elements of the 

 city beautiful".* The Newark Shade Tree Com- 

 mission has planted since its organization six -years ago, nearly 



*From A Fourfold Word for Trees, by Carl Bannwart. 



"my tree" 



