PREFACE 



In the following report on Shade Trees for North Carolina, it is the 

 desire of the Geological and Economic Survey to arouse within the State 

 a more thorough appreciation of the necessity and beauty of shade trees 

 on the streets of our cities and towns. To this end, descriptions are 

 given of the majority of the shade trees suitable for street and park 

 planting in different sections of the State and illustrations have been used 

 to show more effectively the advantages to be derived by a town or city 

 through the judicious planting of suitable trees on their streets. Many 

 towns now realize that shaded parks and streets bordered with neatly kept 

 rows of trees are an asset of very great value. In many instances where a 

 town is without such shade trees it has begun to plant them and the 

 present bulletin will be of considerable assistance to such towns in the 

 selection of the proper trees for planting, the suitable time of year to set 

 them out, and how to care for them and protect them from disease and 

 insects. Various combinations of trees that grow well together and har- 

 monize with each other are given and also suggestions regarding combina- 

 tions of trees to give pleasing effects of color in the spring when the trees 

 are flowering and in the fall when the foliage is turning. To the person 

 who is interested in tree planting for his own yard, the bulletin should 

 be of some considerable value inasmuch as it goes into detail in regard to 

 the transplanting and pruning of trees. 



A short chapter is devoted to Arbor Day and it is hoped that the bul- 

 letin will be the means of promoting a more general observance of this 

 day in the State, especially in the public schools, which will thus incul- 

 cate in our school children a love for our trees, and as they grow up, they 

 will appreciate not only their beauty but also their real value to the place 

 in which they may happen to live. One of the customs of Arbor Day is 

 the planting of trees and if but a few trees are planted each year by each 

 school throughout the State, it will mean that a great many portions of 

 the State will in a few years show most strikingly the advantage of syste- 

 matic planting. 



This report has been prepared by Mr. W. W. Ashe, Forester of the 

 Geological and Economic Survey, who is most competent to treat this 



