OCTOBKB 4, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



1267 



disfigures the landscape; and in the gen- 

 eral improvement of towns and cities 

 along esthetic lines. This betokens a 

 general public awakening to the im- 

 portance of civic beauty. 



Societies having these objects in view 

 are being organized in every direction. 

 We are glad to note that a large share of 

 the attention of these societies is devoted 

 to the planting and preservation of trees. 

 These influences pro{)erly directed can- 

 not but have a good effect in the further- 

 ing of the work of making the city, and 

 the country also, beautiful. 



Laws have been enacted in Massachu- 

 setts making it obligatory on the part 

 of towns to elect tree wardens, who shall 

 have the care and control of all public 

 trees, except those already in charge of 

 park commissioners; while elsewhere 

 throughout the country laws and ordi- 

 nances have been framed, looking to 

 the care and planting of trees in the 

 public streets and highways. The 

 Massachusetts statute is mandatory in 

 regard to the appointment of a warden 

 and the scope of his power. The pro- 

 vision for furnishing funds for planting 

 and care is permissive, which will largely 

 induce negative results. The idea, how- 

 ever, is sound, and when certain of its 

 defects have been remedied, and the 

 knowledge of tree culture increased, its 

 influence on civic beauty will be very 

 powerful. 



Public Co-operation Necessary. 



But the simple passage of a tree- 

 warden law alone does not insure that 

 there will be protection; that trees suit- 

 able in kind will be planted; or that 

 their requirements shall be furnished to 

 them. Let it be a popular service to 

 see that competent wardens are elected, 

 and that their duties are faithfully per- 

 formed. Laws and ordinances are of 

 little avail unless supported, in their 

 execution, by the hearty co-operation of 



Edwin Lonsdak. 



the public. The requirements of the 

 trees are simple; good soil, and protec- 

 tion from the vandal hand, is all that is 

 necessary for favorable results. But 

 money must be provided to pay for 

 these, as well as to meet the expense of 

 pruning and fertilizing; also to combat 



the ravages of insects which infest trees 

 in towns and cities — a consequence of 

 the disturbance of nature 's balance, re- 

 sulting from the banishment or the de- 

 struction of insect-eating birds. 



Tree-planting and improvement asso- 

 ciations have done much to advance the 

 cause of tree-planting in public streets. 

 The Brooklyn Tree-Planting Association 

 recommends the co-operative plan. Un- 

 der this plan competent foresters may 

 be consulted or engaged, trees may be 

 bought, and the ground prepared for 

 planting more cheaply than can be done 

 by individual effort. Associations of 

 this character, however, are difScult to 

 organize. Not everyone possesses en-' 

 thusiasm enough to enter into the work 

 of planting young trees; the result 

 seems too distant, and planting for 

 posterity appears, to many persons, too 

 great a self-sacrifice. 



In the ausence of competent civic con- 

 trol of tree-planting, the co-operative 

 plan, or any other plan looking to the 

 planting of trees in the streets, should be 

 adopted by every citizen who has the 

 interests of his city at heart. No ex- 

 cuse can be offered for the absence 

 of trees on every suitable street, and on 

 every roadside. The matter is easily 

 within the power of each municipality 

 to correct. 



"What to plant for street trees, and 

 how to plant them, are important ques- 

 tions, on the answers to which depend 

 much of the success in planting for 

 street embellishment. 



(To becontinned.) 



Fred« Hahman* 



Grand Forks, N. D. — E. 8. Kneeland, 

 of Hillsboro, is here superintending the 

 building of a large greenhouse which he 

 hopes to have ready for occupancy early 

 in October. The establishment is located 

 on University avenue, near the convent. 



