Park and cemetery. 
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CARRERE & HASTINGS’ PLAN FOR IMPROVEMENT OF PLAZA SITE FOR PULITZER 
FOUNTAIN. 
gorical figure surmounting the fountain 
will be decided upon when the sculptor is 
selected. 
While they were on the subject, the de- 
signers of the fountain and the Plaza park 
their ideas of what should be done to make 
went right ahead and put into their plans 
the whole of that section pleasing and 
artistic. One of the details they added 
was a bordering of plane trees on all 
four sides of the square, and in front 
of the three big hotels to be found there, 
the Vanderbilt house, the Metropolitan 
Club and the park. Also they proposed 
a new rest on the west side of the 
entrance to the park to take the place 
of the wood and iron building now there. 
The new shelter will be longer and wider 
than the present one, and in design and 
material will be in keeping with the rest 
of the improvement. Special treatment 
also is suggested for the park entrance. 
On either side of the driveway there will 
be an ornament of some kind, while the 
centre of the roadway will be occupied 
by an aisle of safety. Below the new shel- 
ter in the park comfort stations are 
planned. 
It was to be expected that any attempt 
to change the arrangement of the plaza 
would call forth protests against conges- 
tion. This the architects have realized and 
their plan is designed especially to pre- 
vent crowding of either vehicular or foot 
traffic. The width of the streets about 
the Central Park feature gives a space 
for north and south traffic not less than 
twice as wide as Fifth avenue, while pe- 
destrians are likely to find the proposed 
arrangement less confusing than the pres- 
ent one. 
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS 
JAMES B. SHEA, Boston, Mass., President 
AND CONTRIBUTIONS 
J. J. LEVISON, Brooklyn, N.Y., Sec.-Treas. 
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Park Utilization Bulletin. 
The attention of members is called to 
the fact that we are about to publish a 
bulletin on park utilization. It will con- 
tain the replies from the various members 
who answered our circular letter on this 
subject under date of December 1. I would 
now like to urge those members who did 
not reply and who would care to have their 
answers included in this bulletin to send 
in their letters at their earliest possible 
convenience. J. J. Levison, 
Secretary. 
Controlling Hickory Bark Borer. 
On February 24, 1913, a conference was 
held at the office of the Commissioner of 
Agriculture at Albany, N. Y., to consider 
the methods to control the hickory bark 
borer, which is now ravaging the hickory 
trees in the vicinity of New York on a 
large scale. Mr. Hermann Merkel, for- 
ester of the New York Zoological Park, 
was the prime mover of this conference, 
and he pleaded especially for the trees in 
his locality. J. J. Levison, forester of 
Prospect Park, was also present there 
and showed that while in Prospect Park 
up to a year ago they were losing at the 
rate of three hundred hickory trees an- 
nually from the ravages of the hickory 
bark beetle, he has succeeded in entirely 
eliminating the insect from the parks of 
Brooklyn, and last year they did not lose 
a single hickory tree, although they still 
have several hundred good hickory trees 
left standing in the parks which are not 
infested. They came to the conclusion that 
the only solution for the problem is the 
absolute removal and destruction of the 
Sun Scald on Trees. 
We experience very considerable trouble 
and loss from sun scald on newly planted 
smooth barked trees, the worst sufferers 
being Tilia Americana, Sorbus Americana 
and Pyrus baccata. Our method of pro- 
tection is to wrap with coarse canvas or 
burlap. Is there any quicker or more ef- 
fective method, such as painting or daub- 
ing, and if so, what preparation is used? 
G. Champion, 
Supt. Public Parks Board. 
Winnipeg, Can. 
[Can any of the members suggest other 
methods of protection?] 
Washing of Park Walks. 
Some members of the association could 
probably suggest a way out of a difficulty 
confronting us in the washing of walks 
in our parks. We finished our walks with 
screenings from an abandoned brick 
plant, the red color of which among the 
green lawn gave a very pleasing effect 
infested trees before early spring. The 
conference is already producing fruit and 
several state inspectors are now working 
in the vicinity of the Zoological Park in 
New York, marking the infested hickory 
trees in that region. 
and was easy to walk on. But on the 
grades it washes out after each heavy 
rain. Cement walks have been proposed, 
but they meet, and rightly, with opposi- 
tion. Might some clean oil mixture help 
the matter? C. Guengerich, 
Prest. Board of Park Directors. 
Joplin, Mo. 
[Members who have had any experience 
with the washing of walks are requested 
to offer some suggestions to Mr. Guenge- 
rich through this department.] 
Filling Cavities in Trees. 
I should like to get some data covering 
considerable observation regarding the fill- 
ing of cavities in trees with cement or 
concrete, and thought that perhaps it 
might be a profitable matter for discus- 
sion in the A. A. P. S. Department of 
Park and Cemetery. That is, I want to 
find out whether the operation can be suc- 
cessfully done or is inherently wrong, and 
I suppose others would like to know the 
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