tions are required in the nursery for heeling in the trees that 
are purchased from nurseries abroad, and which are preferably 
ordered and received during the fall of the year, usually in 
October and November. Upon the arrival of such car-load of 
trees, the force is employed in removing the same carefully from 
the cars, protecting the roots from sun and drying winds, and 
immediately placing the same in the nursery, thoroughly cover- 
ing the roots with soil and so arranged as to be easily taken 
up when required for use upon the street tree planting. Weather 
permitting, tree planting begins the latter part of October or 
November and extends during the mild weather up to about 
the first of April. During the colder days, the force is employed 
in turning the mulch pile to facilitate its thorough decomposi- 
tion; also during November and December trenches are carefully 
prepared for planting the slips from the Oriental Planes, Lom- 
bardy Poplars, Babylonian Willows, California Privet, and slips 
trom other plants 1rom which future trees and shrubbery are to 
be raised. During very cold weather and stormy days, the time 
of the force 1s utilized in the making of guards, the sharpening 
and dipping in green creosote stain the cypress stakes used in 
holding the tree and guard upright. With the appearance otf 
Spring, the Nursery trees require trimming, and where inclined 
to grow crooked to be straightened by tying to stakes placed 
alongside. Calls are frequent from citizens as the Spring advan- 
ces for loads of mulch, and for the planting of trees upon the 
streets fronting their premises. As Spring advances and pre- 
vents further planting ot trees, the cultivation is immediately 
taken up and continued as hereinbefore stated, and this from 
one year’s end to the other, a force is steadily employed in push- 
ing forward the transformation work in protecting and preserv- 
ing what has been done in preceding years, replacing of the trees 
that have been destroyed by natural causes or accident; and in 
the meantime, as sort of side issues, unusued plats of city prop- 
erty, triangular strips, irregular sections formed by intersecting 
streets are graded, ornamented by trees and shrubbery, or pro- 
vided with flower bed forms for cannas or other varieties of 
flowers, and the work of cleaning up and making beautiful the 
city in all of its environs is a subject of thought, consideration 
and work upon the part ot the Commission on Beautifying the 
City, and the force employed by them. 
