PARK AND C EM ETER F. 
in 
Its Trees Constitute 
the Chief Beauty of 
a Park or Cemetery 
Let the E 
)avey T 
ree 
Experts 
Help You by 
Saving the Trees Under 
Your Care 
Work of the Davey Tree Experts in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Without trees, there can be no real beauty 
in a park or cemetery. Artistic drives, 
splendid flower beds, luxuriant grrass, stately 
monuments and columns, — all look barren 
and forbidding without trees. The towering 
forms of trees make wild places beautiful, 
and those same trees, surrounded bv the 
artificial beauties of landscape, constitute an 
unequaled charm. Fine trees are beautiful 
with or without the landscape creations of 
man. But there can be no real beaut.v in 
the landscape without the trees. 
Do you think these statements are trite, needless repetition 
of commonly accepted facts? Do you say that everybody 
knows it, that nobody needs to be told? Then why, pray you, 
are your trees neglected ? If everybody knows that trees are 
of greatest value and are the very first and foremost asset of 
a park or cemetery, why are they the last things to receive 
attention? Why build costly drives and stately monuments, 
why create all this artificial beauty around the wrecks of 
trees? A veritable broadside of facts are available to prove 
that the trees of our parks and cemeteries are falling into 
decay and early death through neglect and abuse. 
You would not take a hundred dollars apiece for your trees 
— nay a thousand apiece for the fine ones! Then why hesitate 
to spend ten dollars apiece to put them in perfect physical 
condition? (It might cost more if they are in bad shape or 
it might cost less if they are in reasonably good condition.) 
Consider it from the standpoint of beauty alone, would it not 
pay? Consider it from the standpoint of civic pride, would 
it not pay? Consider it as a hard, cold business proposition 
would it not pay? Weigh this thought in the balance — which 
is more valuable, a thousand dollars or a hundred perfect 
trees? 
Walter H. Wheeler, Superintendent William F. Landes, Secretary 
THE CROWN HILL CEMETERY 
Indianapolis. Indiana, February 16. It'll 
The Djvey Tree Expert Co. .Kent Ohio. 
Gentlemen: — Your methods are certainly practical and based on correct principles 
and the execution of the work was thorough and conscientious. While it is yet too soon 
to judge of the actual results and value of the work yet we have every confidence that 
they will measure up to expectations and show that the money spent was a wise and 
profitable investment. Some of the big forest trees if lost could not be replaced at 
any price. 
We also appreciate the courteous and straightforward treatment we have received 
both from your'ftice and from your men on the work. 
Yours very truly. (Signed) Walter H. Wlieeler, Superintendent 
The beauty which is created and main- 
tained by that splendid body of practical 
men who superintend our parks and ceme- 
teries is sufficient proof of their skill. The 
keeping of the grounds and the transaction 
of regular business is great enough load for 
them to carry — sometimes too great. Even 
if they were especially trained tree surgeons 
(which they are not), they have no time to 
devote to the trees. If anything is done It 
is rough work by the ordinary unskilled 
labor which liappens to be available. The correct treatment 
of trees requires both a scientific and practical knowledge of 
tree-surgery; it requires long and careful training and the 
skill which comes from it; it requires the agility of youth 
for climbing and the almost reckless abandon of men to the 
dangers of working high in the air; it requires special tools 
and equipment. You cannot expect a plumber to be a 
painter, a carpenter to be a florist, or a physician to be a 
dentist. It is nothing against the physician that he is not a 
dentist, nor is it to the discredit of a florist or gardener that 
he is not tree-surgeon. 
The Davey Tree Expert.^ are Tree-Surgeons and they are 
nothing else. They work at nothing else from one year’s 
end to another. They are expert because John Davey taught 
them the principles and practices of tree-surgery and be- 
cause they work at it constantly. The responsible men in the 
Davey service are trained in the Davey Institute of Tree- 
Surgery. There is no school like it and tree-surgery cannot 
be learned elsewhere. They save trees — actually save them 
and bring them back to proper physical condition. Wounded 
and crippled trees need the Davey experts. The cost of the 
Davey service is not forbidding. It is the quality service. 
An inspection of the trees under your charge is desirable. 
Let a Davey Tree-Surgeon make a careful examination of 
these trees and tell you fully and frankly what conditions he 
may find and what treatment may be necessary. When a 
representative is in your locality an inspection can be ar- 
ranged without cost to you. Write at once. 
THE DAVEY TREE EXPERT CO., Inc. 
463 LEAVES ST., KENT, OHIO 
(Operating the Davey Institute of Tree-Surgery.) 
