18th. To have on hand ready for installation as per sche- 
dule of prices, uniform kinds of hitching posts, wood, concrete 
or metal as desired and their protection, and to install same 
when so desired. 
14th. To secure passage of ordinance placing in the Com- 
mission’s hands the charge of all street trees with authority to 
systematically plant trees each spring and fall until all streets 
of the city upon which it is desirable trees should be planted, 
shall have been filled out with trees. And further to invest 
the Commission with the care and protection of the same, and 
to prepare and secure passage of proper ordinances for the pro- 
tection and preservation of street trees and shubbery from 
lawless depredation and by the prevention of running at large 
of animals or of leaving unhitched or of hitching to trees, 
horses, and providing for the use of suitable hitching posts. 
Also for the improvement and care of parking spaces between 
the curb and sidewalk on all streets where desirable. 
The Commission had confronting it at the beginning of its 
work, the remnants of surviving tree life scattered more or 
less thinly all over the streets of the city. A few surviving 
trees had been enabled to live with a complete change in en- 
vironment from the original surroundings. With the advance- 
ment of paved streets, concrete sidewalks, granite curbs, and 
the necessary curtailment of tree roots and of a living parking 
space, had come the slow decay and death of thousands of trees 
that had been planted during the many previous years of Nor: 
folk’s growth. It was found that trees that had a flourshing 
growth when there was more open space between the houses, 
abundance of light and air, plenty of room in which to grow, 
could not endure the change, and so had to be eliminated from 
the list of desirable trees that could endure city lite; notably 
amongst this list are the silver maple and the magnolia, there 
being but few sursivors of the latter, for hundreds that were 
originally planted in sections of our city, and the silver maple 
showing signs of deterioration in every part of the city, and 
necessitating their fina! removal. 
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