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removed from the front of the schools. The children no longer 
enjoyed the first days of spring, and the hot summers, with their 
beloved ‘‘friends.” 
p to the summer of 1912 on Second Avenue from 6th to 
18th Streets, fourteen shade trees gave relief to pedestrians as 
well as beautifying the Avenue. Today there are four trees 
left, which bear hardly any leaves. Was it from the lack of 
the killing of the roots in building the cellars and paving the 
streets that caused their deterioration, although the trees could 
ve been saved by proper treatment. 
“Dunas the spring of 1912 one hundred and fifty young trees 
were planted on Delancey Street at the beginning of the Plaza 
of the Williamsburg Bridge. During the summer of the first 
year the trees sprouted rapidly. This greatly beautified the 
Plaza. The very next summer, the leaves hardly sprouted at 
all. hat is the cause of this retardation? Is it the exhaust 
steam of the passing automobiles that is hindering their progress? 
Is it the foul air of the Subway that escapes from the iron gratings 
near the trees? Or is it the lack of proper care and nourishment 
that is killing them? Here is where the art of scientific forestry 
plies. T 
scientific forestry be applied only to the Pacific Coast forests when 
such conditions exist in the metropolis? 
More attention should be given to scientific forestry amongst 
the skyscrapers and tenements; as transplanting, planting, and 
preserving of trees means joy and relief to nearly a million, while 
killing a tree means death to many. 
Jutius J. RotHmMsan 
Stuyvesant H1GH SCHOOL 
