AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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ST. PAUL PLANTS 4,280 SHADE 

 TREES 



rpHE city of St. Paul, through its For- 

 estry Division, undertook and finished 

 a single job of tree planting this season 

 of 4,280 street trees in one of its new resi- 

 dence districts. This makes a double row 

 of trees 15 miles long. The season was not 

 long and the manipulation of the various 

 phases of the work deserves some mention, 

 as even a thousand trees is considered a 

 large order to plant on streets in most 

 cities. 



The trees were dug from the nursery by 

 a tree digging machine and shipped into 

 the city in car load lots, averaging about 

 430 trees per car. The trees for each car 

 load were dug and loaded in the car and 

 started on its way for the city the sam 

 day. The following day the car load o: 

 trees would arrive in the city and a crew 

 of men supplied with two trucks would 

 start unloading the trees from the car. In 

 one day the car would be emptied and 

 the trees placed in the holes along the 

 streets to be planted. The trees were 

 "heeled in" each one in the hole where it 

 was to be planted. 



While the nursery crew and the crew un- 

 loading were working, a much larger crew 

 was at work digging holes along the 

 streets to have them ready for the trees. 

 The hole digging crew was always 500 

 holes ahead of the crew hauling the trees 

 from the cars. Still another crew with 

 ten teams was busy hauling black loam 

 for the tree planting, as each tree was 

 finally planted in one cubic yard of black 

 loam. The planting crew followed the 

 hauling crew and planted the trees which 

 had been "heeled in" in the hols along the 

 streets. By this method a steady "stream" 

 of trees came from the nursery to be 

 planted on the streets and in such a man- 

 ner that the roots of the trees were always 

 moist. Furthermore the trees were planted 

 with the least amount of handling, as the 

 nursery is supplied with a spur track from 

 the railroad that extends directly in the 

 nursery. 



After the trees were set in the holes 

 and properly planted, two men trimmed 

 them with pruning hooks while the crews 

 cleaned up around the trees and mulched 

 them with grass cut off the boulevards. 



Plans for tree planting on a job of any 

 size must be drawn by an engineer and 

 the stakes set ahead of the planting crews 

 by a surveyor, in such a way as to miss 

 all sewer connections. The job was finish- 

 ed in one month. The trees were Ameri- 

 can elms, ten to twelve feet tall and two 

 to two and one-half inches in caliber and 

 cost the property owners less than $5.00 

 per tree. To date. July 20, there are only 

 17 dead trees in the whole job. 



The work was under the supervison of 

 the City Forester of St. Paul, E. L. Finney, 

 of the Department of Parks, Playgrounds 

 and Public Buildings. 



HONEY SWEET BLACK RASPBERRY 

 "Sweet as Honey" 



The berry for the million and the millionaire there's millions in it. 



Picking Honeysweet. Sold on local market, summer of 1920, Fifty cents per quart 



The berries are the most delicious fruit you ever tasted. Ripens in July sweet and delicious 

 Unlike any other Black Raspberry. Honeysweet is extremely hardy, passing through the severe 

 fruit tree killing winter of 1919-1920 without injury to a single twig on any plant in a four-acre patch. 

 Bears every year Has never been a slacker. Large size Glossy Black Delicious. The World's 



Greatest Black Cap. 



The big clusters of big, black raspberries literally cover the bushes. Twelve of our vigorous, 

 nursery grown plants, will produce many quarts of fruit the first season Twelve plants will fit into 

 your garden nicely. No Garden should be without Honeysweet. 



As a dessert berry; in pies, as a canned sauce, as jam, you never tasted arrything like it. Truly, 

 a fruit fit for a King. 



Honeysweet has now found its way into every State in the Union and many parts of Canada. 

 Wherever it goes it is a winner. Planted commercially we know of nothing that will pay such 

 immense returns per acre as this new and wonderful variety. Many growers received $1.05 per pound 

 for this year's crop of dried Black Raspberries. 



Visitors are cordially invited to visit our nurseries during the fruiting season. 



Plant Honeysweet it has been called "The most delicious Black Raspberry." 



Price for strong, fruiting plants: $2.50 per 6 $4.00 per 12 $15.00 per 50 $25.00 per 100 $200.00 per 1,000. 



GLEN BROTHERS, Inc., Glenwood Nursery (Established 1866) 



2009 E. Main St. - - Rochester, N. Y 



Orchids 



We are specialists in 

 Orchids; we collect, im- 

 port, grow, sell and export this class of plants 

 exclusively. 



Our illustrated and descriptive catalogue of 

 Orchids may be had on application. Also spe- 

 cial list of freshly imported unestablished 

 Orchids. 



LAGER & HURRELL 



Orchid Grewera and Importer! SUMMIT, H. J. 



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