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BIG TREE MOVING IN INDIANAPOLIS PARKS 
being merely a tripod with a three-ton 
block and chain. 
Owing to the heavy sleet during March 
a force of trimmers was employed during 
the summer in removing broken and dead 
limbs from trees in all parks in the sys- 
tem. The trees damaged by this storm 
were of the soft wood variety. T. H. Tall, 
horticulturist of the department, suggests 
that in the near future a force of tree sur- 
geons be employed to remove all weak and 
dead wood and fill cavities in all forest 
trees. This will prolong the life of the 
tree, as all decayed wood is removed, the 
cavity painted and filled with cement and 
in time cambium bark will roll over the 
cement and form an air-tight joint. 
In early fall, spraying operations were 
resumed against all scale insects, and, with 
additional equipment purchased during the 
summer, more trees have been sprayed 
and the power sprayer was kept at River- 
side and Fall Creek Parkway. Approx- 
imately 20,000 gallons of solution were 
used. 
By a recent city ordinance the depart- 
ment now exercises full control and juris- 
diction over all trees and shrubbery on 
city lawns. The ordinance perscribing the 
issuing of permits for the planting, trim- 
ming, spraying or removal of trees or 
shrubbery on the public lawns, specifies that 
ground lying between the curbing and the 
property line of any street, alley or public 
thoroughfare, and requires that all persons 
engaged in the business of planting, trim- 
ming, spraying or removal of trees on 
such street lawns first secure a city license 
after having submitted to an examination 
by the horticultural department as to their 
knowledge and fitness for the care and 
treatment of trees. 
TRANSPLANTING TREES IN WINTER; INDIANAPOLIS PARK SYS- 
TEM. 
The Horticultural Department has been 
conducted very intelligently during the year 
and much planting has been accomplished 
which will in a few years add to the gen- 
eral beauty of the parks. 
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The illustrations on this page show some 
interesting work in the transplanting of 
large trees in the Indianapolis parks. This 
work is done under the direction of the 
park horticultural department. The trees 
are usually removed in the winter, when 
the ground is frozen, excavation being 
made to a depth of about five or six feet. 
These holes are provided with good loamy 
soil and the trees which are to be moved 
are cut around the roots during the pre- 
vious summer, and when they are re- 
moved balls of earth from five to six feet 
and about three feet in depth are trans- 
ferred. The cart for moving them is a 
home-made affair, which is very simple, 
Superintendent Alex Hanton, of the 
Cemetery Department of Barre, Vt., is 
making an active campaign to get the New 
England Cemetery Association to meet in 
Barre. This town has made much prog- 
ress in cemetery development in recent 
years, and its interesting cemeteries were 
described and illustrated in our December 
issue. In addition to the direct interest in 
cemetery matters, superintendents will find 
it profitable to inspect the great granite 
quarries and granite cutting plants at 
Barre. This city is the greatest monu- 
mental granite producing center in the 
world and cemetery men could learn much 
here of the processes by which monumental 
granite is quarried and finished. Mr. Han- 
ton promises that the cemetery people will 
be the guests of Barre citizens while they 
are there and that they will be under no 
expenses of any kind. Some extensive im- 
provements are being made in Barre cem- 
