citizen who has planted the treés, and who claims the “sacred 
rights of private property.” Hence, the logical conclusion has 
forced its way into state after state that the city as a whole 
should look after its greater interests, and place its protecting 
care over its street trees, Hence individual action has come to 
be supplanted by municipal control, not forgetting the individual 
interest nor the enhanced value of his property through such 
improvement, and charging up to him the initial cost, but there- 
after removing from him any further ¢are and the larger ex- 
pense of continious oversight, which is borne by the city which 
thus carries the greater cost of perpetual maintenance. 
PRUNING AND TREE SURGERY. 
The Commission continued its work of pruning the older 
trees of the city, as well as putting in proper shape the trees 
newly planted during the summer and fall of 1913 and 1914. 
Hundreds of trees that had survived their usefulness and were 
a disfigurement rather than an ornamentation to the streets of 
the city were removed, and as a rule new trees substituted in 
place thereof. Trees worth saving were properly treated, re- 
moving the decayed portions, covering them with an antiseptic 
paint and the cavities filled with cement filling, with the pro- 
bable result of prolonging the life of the tree for a number of 
years. 
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