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Mr. ^Vheeler stated that some towns have laws that no trees can 

 be cut or pruned without the permission and oversight of the tree 

 warden. 



Mr. Pettigrew said that the City of Boston was exempt from the 

 tree-warden law He thought that somebody or some department 

 of the city should be given authority to take full charge of our city 

 trees and to have complete power in all matters pertaining to them. 



O. B. Hadwen remarked that in Worcester, where he lived, the 

 care of the street trees was in the hands of the Park Commissioners, 

 of which he had been a member for forty years. He had planted 

 a great many trees, more than most other people, and had on his 

 own estate more than a thousand specimens of one hundred different 

 kinds; some of these he had planted sixty years ago. Mr. Had- 

 wen advised planting trees on your own ground and then they are 

 under your own control. In planting trees he said it is quite 

 important that they should be sufficiently nourished. He recom- 

 mended digging a generous hole in the autumn and filling it with 

 manure, leaving it until the spring; then take out the manure and 

 fill in with good loam, and you have a good place in which to 

 plant a tree. There had been no part of his farming experience, he 

 said, that had given him so much pleasure as had the planting and 

 care of his trees. 



Nathaniel T. Kidder said that there was a continual conflict 

 between the trees and electric wires. The principal damage to 

 the trees was caused by the chafing of the wires, and the remedy 

 for it was putting the wires under ground, the only proper place 

 for them. 



Edward B. Wilder said he thought the Park Department should 

 have the care of the trees in the city streets. 



James Wheeler corroborated Mr. Kidder's views in regard to 

 placing the wires under ground in the city and suburbs. Our trees 

 are greatly damaged, he said, by the cutting and slashing of the 

 telephone people. 



