255 PARK AND CEM ETERY. 
BEHEADED AND MAIMED TREES IN CLEVELAND. 
trees interfered with their wires, they 
would mutilate them in the most out- 
rageous manner, even going so far as 
to cut down trees that were ten and 
fifteen inches in diameter. But all of 
this changed. The park board had 
every man arrested who trimmed a tree 
without a permit and the court in- 
flicted a good big fine and a promise of 
imprisonment if the culprit came a sec- 
ond time. Now if a tree interferes 
with the wires a permit is applied for, 
which is referred to the committee on 
street trees, and if the tree can be 
trimmed without injuring it the permit 
is granted, if not, the company takes 
some other means of overcoming the 
difficulty. Usually this is by stringing 
a cable instead of a number of single 
wires. Our judges have learned that 
there is more value in a shade tree 
than what it would be worth for cord 
wood, so now after a battle of several 
years’ duration our trees are pretty well 
protected. A park policeman who was 
detailed to look after them arrested 
over two hundred for hitching horses to 
trees, before the drivers began to real- 
ize that the ordinance would be en- 
forced, and that a second offence meant 
a large fine. Our city is one of the 
best planted in the country and we 
are all proud of our beautiful forest 
lined streets.” 
All reports indicate that the care 
of the trees rests with the intelligence 
of the community. It^s easily within 
its power to gain the co-operation of 
the courts in enforcing any reasonable 
rules and regulations looking to the 
protection, care and planting of street 
trees, which are after all the essential 
factors -in a town beautiful. 
^ ^ 
Clev'eland, O., has had a sorry ex- 
perience in the matter of injury to her 
wires, and has suffered irreparable dam- 
age. Mr. John Boddy, city landscape 
architect, writes that an ordinance has 
recently been introduced into the city 
council which partially covers the sit- 
uation, so far as tree trimming is con- 
cerned, but cannot make good the harm 
done. After a careful study of the prob- 
lem for many months, Mr. Boddy has 
come to the conclusion that a solution 
of the problem lies in: first, to force 
by ordinance the companies concerned 
For the past two years the Depart- 
ment of Public Grounds of Boston has 
waged a vigorous war toward the ex- 
termination of the Brown Tail and Gyp- 
sy Moths. About one hundred and 
twenty-five men are employed during 
the fall, winter and early spring in this 
work. 
The work while under the immediate 
care of the Superintendent of Public 
Grounds, is supervised by the State Su- 
perintendent, A. H. Kirkland. 
In the fall, before the snow falls, the 
Gypsy nests are treated as they are 
more easily found during that time. 
With snow on the ground they are 
almost impossible to locate, as the 
moth lays its eggs in all sorts of places. 
It lays on leaves, stones, foundations 
of houses, blinds, old tin cans and a 
particularly favorable place is on the 
rocks making a stone v/alL In no case 
are they easy to find, so that the work 
of extermination is extremely difficult. 
The nests when found are treated with 
creosote. It is applied to the nest with 
a brush. The Brown Tail’s habits are 
different from the Gypsy, in that they 
make their nests on the branches of the 
trees at the very tips in most inacces- 
to run their wires through cables on 
all streets having trees planted thereon, 
and, second, by working to the end of 
ultimately getting all the several com- 
panies involved to run their wires in 
conduits underground. This latter 
could not, in all probability, be accom- 
plished for several years, but an ordi- 
nance controlling the situation could be 
passed that would provide for a given 
mileage of wires, or rather, all wires 
within 'a given number of streets, being 
placed underground, as suggested, each 
year until the entire system had thus 
been fully provided for.” 
The ordinance referred to previously 
provides in Section 2 that no person 
shall either trim or take care of any 
tree or trees without first satisfying the 
Board of Public Service as to his 
knowledge and ability for the work, and 
upon application to the Board for a 
permit, such permit will only be granted 
upon satisfactory proof of fitness and 
ability. Section 3 of the ordinance pro- 
vides penalties for its violation. 
It is quite unnecessary to comment 
upon conditions that have allowed the 
public service corporations to so out- 
rageously butcher a city’s shade trees 
as the illustrations show to have been 
done in Cleveland, O. 
sible places. They must be reached and 
cut off and the nests burned. This is 
much more easily said than done, for 
when the nests are found on a tree 
BURNING BROWN TAIL MOTHS. 
KILLING MOTH PESTS IN BOSTON 
