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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Harry Eaton, a white flower, carried off the 
cup in the seedling class. It has the type and 
general characteristics of its Wanamaker ancestry 
but it is larger. 
Mr. Stromback has several promising seedling 
chrysanthemums this year. The two best he has 
named Mrs. Yates and Mrs. Woodworth, and they 
were on exhibition at this show. The last received 
considerable favorable attention from the growers 
present and one of them is arranging to get a stock 
of it. 
Carnations were unusually fine and abundant 
and numbers of excellent roses were on exhibition. 
Bassett and Washburn made their usual attractive 
display of American Beauties and show'ed some 
superb Kaiserins. They also won first prize for a 
new rose “never exhibited before’’ with the variety 
heretofore known as No. 19, which the originator 
has christened Marquis d’Elita, and they sent well 
grown specimens of Golden Gate, another new 
rose, while Reinbergtook first prize with the other 
new comer in roses — Liberty. 
The new rose. Queen of Edgely, proved a draw- 
ing card, although as shown here, apparently in 
competition with the trophy it won in the east, it is 
far from being an impressive rose. The contrast 
between the tall and sliowy silver cup and the me- 
dium-sized and medium-stemmed flowers, was not 
to the advantage of the “Queen.” It is far behind 
its parent, the peerless American Beauty, having 
the same tendency to fade on the borders of the 
petals and being much paler in color, is less able to 
endure the resulting washed-out effect. It is but 
fair to say that the specimens shown traveled far and 
probably to their disadvantage in this respect, but 
the blooms certainly seemed deficient in substance. 
The box decorations which occupied the lower 
tier of boxes on either side, proved a pleasing and 
telling feature that added greatly to the general 
effect, which was distinctly good. 
It is pleasant to know that the fund for the 
Galveston sufferers realized from the sale of cut 
flowers generously donated by the various growers, 
amounted to three hundred dollars. 
THE TREE WARDEN LAW OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
AN ACT TO CODIFV AND AMEND THE DAWS REDATIVE TO THE 
PRESERV.VTION OF TREES. 
Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 
Section i. Every town shall at its annual meeting for 
the election of town officers elect a tree warden, who shall serve 
for one year and until his successor is elected and qualified. 
He may appoint such number of deputj' tree wardens as he 
deems expedient, and may at any time remove them from 
office. He and his deputies shall receive such compensation 
for their services as the town may determine, and, in default 
of such det rminstion, as the selectmen may prescribe. He 
shall have the care and control of all public shade trees in the 
town, except those in public parks or open places under the 
jurisdiction of park commissioners, and of these also he shall 
take the care and control if so requested in writing h}’ the park 
commissioners. He shall expend all funds appropriated for 
the setting out and maintenance of such trees. He may pre- 
scribe such regulations for the care and preservation of such 
trees, enforced by suitable fines and forfeitures, not exceeding 
twenty dollars in any one case, as he may deem just and expe- 
dient; and such regulations, when approved by the selectmen 
and posted in two or more public places in the town, shall 
have the force and effect of town by-laws. It shall be his duty to 
enforce all provisions of law for the preservation of such trees. 
Section 2. Towns may appropriate annually a sum of 
money not exceeding in the aggregate fifty cents for each of 
its ratable polls in the preceding year, to be expended by the 
tree warden in planting shade trees in the public ways, or if he 
deems it expedient, upon adjoining land, at a distance not 
exceeding twenty feet from said public ways, for the purpose 
of shading or ornamenting the same: provided, however, that 
the written consent of the owner of such land shall first be 
obtained. All the shade trees within the limits of any public 
way shall be deemed public shade trees. 
Section 3. Whoever, other than a tree warden or his 
deputy, desires the cutting or removal, in whole or in part, of 
any public shade tree, may apply to the tree warden, who shall 
give a public hearing upon the application at some suitable 
time and place, after duly posting notices of the hearing in 
two or more public places in the town, and also upon the said 
tree, provided, however, that the warden may, if he deems it 
expedient, grant permission for such cutting or removal, with- 
out calling a hearing, if the tree in question is on a public way- 
outside of the residential part of the town, the limits of such 
residential part to be determined by the selectmen. No tree 
within such residential part shall be cut by the tree warden, ex- 
cept to trim it, or remov-ed by him without a hearing as aforesaid ; 
but in all cases the decision of the tree warden shall be final. 
Section 4. Tow-ns may annually raise and appropriate 
such sum of money as they deem necessary, to be expended 
under the direction of the tree warden in exterminating insect 
pests within the limits of their public ways and places, and in 
the removal from said public ways and places of all trees and 
other plants upon which said pests natnrally breed; provided, 
however, that w-here an owner or lessee of real estate shall, to 
the satisfaction of the tree warden, annually exterminate all 
insect pests upon the trees and other plants within the limits of 
any public way or place abutting on said real estate, such trees 
and plants shall be exempt from the provisions of this section. 
Section 5. Whoever affixes to any tree in a public way 
or place a play -bill, picture, announcement, notice, advertise- 
ment, or other thing, whether in writing or otherwise, or cuts, 
paints or marks such tree, except for the purpose of protecting 
it and under a written permit from the tree warden, shall be 
punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars for each offence. 
Section 6. Whoever w-antonly injures, defaces, breaks or 
destroys an ornamental or shade tree within the limits of any 
public way or place shall forfeit not less than five nor more 
than one hundred dollars, to be recovered by complaint, one 
half to the complainant and the other half to the use of the 
town. 
Section 7. Whoever negligently or carelessly suffers a 
horse or other beast driven by or for him, or a beast belonging 
to him and lawfully in a public way or place, to break down, 
injure or destroy a shade or ornamental tree within the limits 
of said public way or place, or whoever negligently or wilfully 
by any other means breaks down, injures or destroys any such 
tree, shall be liable to the penalties prescribed in the foregoing 
section, and shall in addition be liable for all damages caused 
thereby. 
Section 8. It shall be the duty of the tree warden to en- 
force the provisions of the preceding sections. 
{^Approved May 4, iSgg. 
