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EASTERN SHADE TREE CONFERENCE 
adequate annual maintenance of plantations set out very much in the 
same manner that public road work is now carried on. There is a story 
which went the rounds many years ago of an Irishman who was observed 
dropping a quarter between the planks of a wooden sidewalk. A by¬ 
stander chided him on his foolish extravagance, but the Irishman re¬ 
plied, “I had already lost a quarter under the sidewalk and I have put 
another with it to make it worth while for me to take up the plank and 
recover my money.’’ In spite of its absurdity, there is a bit of philoso¬ 
phy in this story for some of our public work and especially for our 
shade tree program. We are now and then in a hit or miss manner 
putting many quarters in our shade tree work but we need to put a little 
more money with them in order to get the full benefit of the funds 
expended. 
CEMETERY TREES WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF STORM 
DAMAGE 
By O. F. Burbank, Superintendent , Hope Cemetery , Worcester, Mass. 
Photographs, especially those in natural color, are so much more elo¬ 
quent than language, that I propose to let these pictures tell their own 
story. They were taken at Hope Cemetery at Worcester, Massachu¬ 
setts, most of them on the day following the storm of September 21st. 
A few slides show trees as they appeared before the hurricane. I 
have tried to group them in such succession as to point out some con¬ 
ditions that may be object lessons in what to avoid, and perhaps worth 
consideration in planning the work of rehabilitation. If observation of 
the effects of this hurricane convinces us that mistakes, both of commis¬ 
sion and omission, have been made in the past, the institutions we serve 
will surely benefit from our ability to profit by such knowledge. 
Worcester is located close to the center of the storm-affected area. 
Information from and visits to other parts of New England convince 
me that nowhere was the force of the wind more violent than in this 
city. Records from local weather stations confirm this view. True, 
destruction and loss of life was greater along the sea and large waterways, 
where flood and tidal wave were factors. 
No wind disturbance of equal intensity over such a large area ever 
before has been experienced in New England, at least, none has been 
officially recorded in more than a hundred years. And so, I think we 
may safely discount the probability of an early recurrence of such a 
combination of destructive forces. But it would be less than wise to 
