34 DAVET'S PRIMER 



How do you like the looks of this young tree for 

 street planting? On pages 21 and 23 you see what the 

 telephone companies and other people have done. All 

 that trouble might have been avoided. The photo- 

 graph before you presents a tree whose top is formed 

 about twelve feet from the ground. If the right kind 

 of trees were selected for street planting, and tops were 

 all formed at this height, or even higher, then all tele- 

 phone and " feed wires " for the trolley cars could pass 

 under the branches and the trees would not be cut to 

 pieces nor have the wires come in contact with the 

 tree and " ground the current." Tree planting has 

 been done by "Tom, Dick and Harry," and they have 

 produced the most evil results. The tree in this photo- 

 graph is at Gates Mills, sixteen miles east of Cleveland, 

 one of God's most beautiful spots, where the good peo- 

 ple of Cleveland have bought a large tract of land and 

 are preserving the natural scenery. They have ]aid out 

 beautiful boulevards and they ordered three thousand 

 trees, many of which were used to line the new streets. 

 The trees, I am told, came in good order, and they 

 hired a man and paid him $3.00 a day to set them, and 

 what do you think he did? Took the hatchet and 

 chopped off their tops ! compelling them to force out 

 branches low down, some of them not over six feet 

 from the ground ! The one presented here was, I sup- 

 pose, accidentallv missed ! In a few years, these low- 

 formed branches will push out and interfere with the 

 carriages on the drive, and pedestrians on the sidewalk. 



