PARK AND CEMRTE.RY 
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NURSERIES DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC GROUNDS, 
No. 1. A new lot of trees is set in and left undisturbed for one year, 
depth to plant. No. 4. A tree three years old from the Nursei-y- 
the result of deep planting means. 
or Oil the lawn in front of their houses close to side- 
walk, provided there is sufficient room and soil there 
to accommodate the tree. Planting on the lawn gives 
the person so planting jurisdiction over his tree and 
places it out of the reach of horses and possible in- 
jury from wheels, and also keeps it out of the reach 
of the telephone and electric light men. The city or- 
I dinances require a bond of $1000 from any person 
opening the street. The Superintendent assumes the 
responsibility and obtains the permit for the one doing 
the planting. The preference is for maples, both the 
sugar and Norway. Each year at the nursery a thou- 
sand trees are added that in three or four years are 
ready for distribution. 
The greatest difficulty is in getting the applicants 
for trees to understand that they are not to be planted 
deep. The only losses have been through deep plant- 
ing. A circular is issued to each person giving in- 
. structions in planting. Luke J. Doogue. 
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BOSTON, MASS. 
No. 2. Some young trees. No. 3. Showing 
No. 5. We try to show those taking trees what 
AN INSECTICIDE. 
W. E. Everette, of Tacoma, Wash., has secured a patent 
for an insecticide, which he claims will destroy insects, cater- 
pillars, worms, and their eggs, fungus growth, and other 
hurtful pests which attack trees and plants. To make this 
compound, pulverize about one pound of each of the follow- 
ing ingredients ; sulphur, resin of pine, soap-powder, sodium 
oxid, tobacco-stems, castor-oil beans, and pyrethrum-flowers, 
and add about one pound of asphalt-petroleum, about one 
pound of fuming sulphuric acid, and about one pound of com- 
mercial phenic alcohol (carbolic acid). By asphalt-petro- 
leum is meant that class of petroleum which has an asphalt 
base in distinction from that which has a paraffin base or 
residue. These ingredients are to be mixed to the condition 
of a dough-like mass or paste and preferably divided into 
small portions — say about one ounce packages. To preserve 
these packages from the air, they are preferably wrapped in 
paraffin-paper and tin-foil. In using this compound one 
ounce is to be diluted with about a gallon of boiling water 
and then sprayed upon the tree or vine. (Patent No. 798,- 
603.) 
