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property owner should be taxed for the trees needed. 



Sixth. Get one or two of your neighbors to help you, 

 thus organizing a nucleus, and send out postal cards call- 

 ing for an evening meeting of the block residents at your 

 own or at your neighbor's house. State briefly the pur- 

 pose of the meeting and make it a semi-social affair. 

 Have some prominent resident lay the prop- 

 osition before the meeting and, if possible, 

 let. some park officials or someone else 

 versed in the value and growth of trees pre- 

 sent the benefits of cooperative effort and 

 the need of the movement on the block. 



Seventh. With the necessary data on 

 hand, you can present the proposition to 

 your neighbors in definite form and ask 

 them to contribute their share. This cost 

 will vary with the city, local conditions and 

 kind and character of tree, and will range 

 from $6 to $12 per tree. In Brooklyn the 

 cost is $8 per tree; in Manhattan it is $13 

 or more, and in some cities we have known 

 it to be much less. 



Eighth. With your neighbors pledged, 

 get to work at once to procure the planter 

 and the trees. 



While the above all seems systematic and 

 easy of attainment our experience has been 

 that there are many snags to overcome, and 

 for that reason the work cannot be started 

 too soon. Where planting is contemplated 

 in the spring, it is wise to commence prep- 



important boulevards, beautifying them greatly. 



In Chicago several of the largest boulevards are laid 

 out in the form of a parking, planted with both shrubs 

 and flowers. 



In Brooklyn all the newly built private residential 

 streets are laid out with an oblong parking in the center 



A WELL-SHADED STREET IN WINTER GARB 



Value of trees on this street $7,752.92. Only the trees shown in picture included in this valuation. 

 About one-half mile in length and 89 trees in that distance. 



arations the previous summer, selecting the trees in the 

 nursery in late summer and preparing the holes with soil, 

 etc., in the fall. When spring arrives, there will then be 

 no delay and the planting can be accomplished with 

 greater success. 



PLANTING PARKWAYS AND BOULEVARDS 



Answering many inquiries regarding the planting of 

 parkways and boulevards, I would say that in many of 

 our cities it has been the practice to plant shrubbery along 



IDEAL PLANTING EFFECTS 



On Waltham Street, West Newton, Massachusetts, small park in foreground. Trees on 

 this street are valued at $20,467.05. There are 1.4 miles of roadway and 221 trees. 



planted with shrubs, and in some 

 cases, even with flowers. In 

 many of these avenues there are 

 oblong spaces reserved along the 

 side of the street between the 

 curb and the sidewalk, which 

 are planted with shrubs. 



In Boston the great system of 

 boulevards which take the form 

 of parks are planted with heavy 

 masses of shrubbery along the 

 edge. This is also true of the 

 Essex County Boulevard in 

 Newark, laid out and planted in 

 recent years by one of our fore- 

 most landscape architects. 



The shrubbery used for that 

 purpose varies with the locality 

 and the personal taste of the 

 designer, but consists principally of such species as: 



Deutzias 



Weigelas 



Forsythias 



Hydrangeas 



Bush Honeysuckle 



Spirea Thunbergii 



Spirea Van Houttei 



Spirea Anthony Waterer 



Lilacs 



Viburnums 



Dogwood 



Kerria 



Symphoricarpus 



Rhododendrons 



Judas Tree 



Yucca 



Euonymus alatus 



Japan Quince 



Ligustrum Ibota 



Ligustrum Regelianum 



