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Five types of planting specifications which the writer has 

 compiled or originated are recommended as follows together 

 with the classes of streets for which they are appropriate.* 

 Details of both specifications and estimates will be found in 

 the next chapter. 



I. Street Tree Planting Specification No. 1. 

 (Estimated cost $10 per tree.) 



This specification is suggested for use under the most 

 favorable conditions and is adapted for residence streets, 

 parkways and boulevards when parking strips or fenced 

 parking areas (either grass or gravel) already exist or may 

 be secured. This specification will apply, of course, to streets 

 with central as well as side parkings. 



]STote.— The estimated cost does not cover the cost of 

 iron fences around the parking strips or areas if these are 

 necessary, or the uncovering of the parking strip or area if 

 the same is at present paved. 



II. Street Tree Planting Specification No. 2. 

 (Estimated cost $15-$20 per tree.) 



This specification is for use under fairly favorable con- 

 ditions and is adapted for residence streets or business 

 streets which do not contain parking strips but where the 

 sidewalks are wide and the traffic does not demand gratings 

 or heavy guards. The tree pits may be kept in grass (fenced) 

 or gravel or the surface may be paved with brick laid in 

 sand. 



* The writer wishes to acknowledge that many suggestions and ideas 

 respecting the details of these specifications were derived from a study 

 of the tree-planting work and writings of the following men : A. A. 

 Shurtleff, Landscape Architect; F. L. Olmstead, Landscape Architect, 

 both of Boston; City Forester George A. Cromie of New Haven; Sec- 

 retary Carl Bannwart of the Shade Tree Commission of Newark; City 

 Forester H. B. Filer of Buffalo; City Engineer Frank R. Lanigan of 

 Albany, N. Y. Acknowledgment is also made to the following men for 

 detailed replies to letters of inquiry regarding Street Tree Practice and 

 experience in their respective cities: John Boddy, City Forester, Cleve- 

 land; R. B. Maxwell, City Forester, Baltimore; H. J. Neal, City For- 

 ifster, Worcester; L. F. Peck, Superintendent of Streets, Hartford. 



