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7. Any person violating the foregoing rules and regula- 
tions shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall on convic- 
tion thereof be punished by a fine not exceeding $20 for each 
offence. 
John Evelyn said that men seldom plant trees till they 
begin to be wise ; and so it may be well to note what the wise 
men in the Legislature of Massachusetts have decreed as to 
tree planting on streets and highways. 
Chapter 196, Laws of 1890. Section i. The mayor and 
aldermen of cities and selectmen of towns are authorized to 
designate and preserve trees in highways for ornament and 
shade, not less than one tree in every thirty-three feet and 
of one inch or more. 
Sec. 2. Provides for marking the trees selected. 
Sec. 3. Provides that whoever injures, defaces or destroys 
any designated tree shall forfeit not less than five or more 
than one hundred dollars. 
Chapter 330, Laws of 1899. Section i. Every town shall 
at its annual meeting for the election of town officers elect a 
tree warden, who shall serve for one year and until his 
successor is elected and qualified. He may appoint such 
number of deputy tree wardens as he deems expedient, and 
may at any time remove them from office. He and his depu- 
ties shall receive such compensation for their services as the 
town may determine, and, in default of such determination, 
as the selectmen may prescribe. He shall have the care and 
control of all the public shade trees in the town, except those 
in public parks or open places under the jurisdiction of Park 
Commissioners, and of these also he shall take the care and 
control if so requested in writing by the Park Commissioners. 
He shall expend all funds appropriated for the setting out 
and maintenance of such trees. He may prescribe such regu- 
lations for the care and preservation of such trees, enforced 
by suitable fines, not exceeding twenty dollars in any one 
case, as he may deem just and expedient; and such regula- 
tions, when approved by the selectmen and posted in two or 
more public places in the town, shall have the force and 
effect of town by-laws. It shall be his duty to enforce all 
provisions of law for the preservation of such trees. 
Sec. 2. Towns may appropriate annually a sum of money 
not exceeding in the aggregate fifty cents for each ratable, 
poll in the preceding year, to be expended by the tree warden 
in planting shade trees in the public ways ; or, if he deems 
it expedient, upon adjoining land, at a distance not exceeding 
twenty feet from said public ways, for the purpose of shading 
or ornamenting the same ; provided, however, that the written 
consent of the owner of such land shall first be obtained. 
All shade trees within the limits of any public way shall be 
deemed public shade trees. 
Sec. 3. Whoever, other than a tree warden or his deputy, 
desires the cutting or removal, in whole or in part, of any 
public shade tree, may apply to the tree warden, who shall 
give a public hearing upon the application at some suitable 
time and place, after duly posting notices of the hearing in 
two or more public places in the town and also upon the 
said tree ; provided, however, that the warden may, if he 
deems it expedient, grant permission for such cutting or re- 
moval, without calling a hearing if the tree in question is on 
a public way outside of the residential part of the town, the 
limit of such residential part to be deterqiined by the select- 
men. No tree within such residential part shall be cut by the 
tree warden, except to trim it, or removed by him, without a 
hearing as aforesaid ; but in all cases the decision of the tree 
warden shall be final. 
Sec. 4. Towns may annually raise and appropriate such 
sum of money as they deem necessary, to be expended under 
the direction of the tree warden in exterminating insect pests 
within the limits of their public ways and places,' and in the 
removal from said public ways and places of all trees and other 
plants upon which such pests naturally breed; provided, how- 
ever, that when an owner or lessee of real estate shall, to the 
satisfaction of the tree warden, annually exterminate all in- 
sect pests upon the trees and other plants, within the limits 
of any public way or place abutting on said real estate, such 
trees and plants shall be exempt from the provisions of this 
section. 
Sec. 5. Whoever affixes to any tree in a public way or 
place a play bill, picture, announcement, notice, advertisement, 
or any other thing, whether in writing or otherwise, or cuts, 
paints or marks such tree, except for the purpose of protect- 
ing it and under a written permit from the tree warden, shall 
be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars for each 
offence. 
Sec. 6. Whoever wantonly injures, breaks or destroys an 
ornamental or shade tree within the limits of any public way 
or place shall forfeit not less than five nor more than one 
hundred dollars, to be recovered by complaint, one-half to 
the complainant and the other half to the use of the town. 
Sec. 7. Whoever negligently or carelessly suffers a horse 
or beast driven by or for him, or a beast belonging to him and 
lawfully in a public way or place, to break down, injure or 
destroy a shade or ornamental tree within the limits of said 
public way or place, or whoever negligently or wilfully by 
any other means breaks down, injures or destroys any such 
tree, shall be liable to the penalties prescribed in the fore- 
going section, and shall in addition be liable for all damages 
caused thereby. 
THE DAISY. 
This humble flower so plenteously spread over ^ the 
field, the meadow, and roadside, 
That some have called it “weed” ; 
We, of the city, sought it far and wide and found at 
last the lovely spot 
DAISIES. 
Where snowy “white weed” stars the prairie grass, just 
as of old, when painted Indians passed 
Along the ancient trail now lost to view, — 
Gathered, and caught their faces, here for you. 
F. C. S. 
