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SYSTEMATIC ALL THE YEAR TREE WORK 
The Shade Tree Commission of Newark, 
N. J., is one of the most systematic and 
efficient organizations for the planting and 
care of trees in the country, and its annual 
report is both a guide and a compendium 
of what to do for the trees the year round. 
Secretary Carl Bannwart has also issued a 
remarkably clever and impressive series of 
folders and circulars for the education of 
the public in the care of the trees that have 
been instrumental in enlisting a widespread 
co-operation in the work of the commis- 
sion. 
A seasonal summary of the year’s work 
with the trees is one of the interesting fea- 
tures of Secretary Bannwart’s comprehen- 
sive annual report. Just before the advent 
of frost, dead trees were taken down, the 
roots dug up, and new trees set out in- 
stead. For this latter operation they use 
chiefly the Norway maple. Sometimes trees 
of this variety, ranging in caliper from 4 
inches to 8 inches, are presented to the 
commission for such park planting. These 
are usually the gifts of citizens who hap- 
pen to be clearing portions of their hold- 
ings in order to build. Trees of this size 
are shifted from their original standings 
and set out in the parks by means of a 
large tree-moving machine, a picture of 
which appears here. 
The topsoiling where necessary and the 
spreading of lawns and flower beds with 
manure were other labors of this season. 
This treatment serves a double purpose. It 
protects the roots from frost and it goes 
far to account for the fine showing of the 
park lawns in summer. 
Sundry repairs claimed attention at this 
time. Park walls were overhauled. Park 
fences came in for repair. Park settees 
were gathered into the storeroom and 
there repaired and repainted; also new set- 
tees were constructed. The commission 
makes its own wire tree guards. These op- 
erations enabled them, at this as at other 
seasons, to utilize the services of men 
when weather conditions preclude work in 
the open. Repairing fountains was also in 
order, as at Clinton and other parks : also 
the setting out of privet hedges as at 
Brientnall Park. 
When winter comes one of the chief 
tasks is to keep open the park walks. Snow 
shoveling then came to the fore. The men 
are so assigned by schedule, previously pre- 
pared, that each man at every moment 
knows his post of snow-duty and proceeds 
thereto at once when snow comes and 
without waiting for specific assignment. 
Thus it comes to pass that when it snows 
at night, for instance, the men are on the 
job in the sma’ hours with plows and shov- 
els, clearing the park paths for early pedes- 
trians on their way to work. The schedule 
works with like precision and promptness 
in case of Sunday snow. 
So when the snows had melted on the 
lawns work began in clearing away the 
manure which under its blanket of white 
had been feeding the rootlets all winter. 
Then in some of the parks extensive sub- 
soiling was done. This was done wherever 
the need existed. Walks were “lined out,” 
the edges of the lawns cut, and, of course, 
the lawns were mowed. Certain hedges 
were removed. New shrubbery was set out 
to replace stock which had become too old 
to be at its best or had been injured. The 
tulips set out the previous fall began to 
unfold in beautiful bloom. 
Having planted the trees, the next duty 
is to care for them. This involved periodic 
visits by men at divers seasons along a 
frontage of one hundred and thirty miles 
of streets. It means that the soil must be 
kept loosened and watered and otherwise 
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