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INDEX 
Bronze birch borer, habits and damage 
of, 199, 219 
Brookline Shade Tree Department, 245 
Brown-Tail Moth, 201, 211, 216, 218 
Buckeye, Ohio, 30 
Sweet, 30 
Red, 30 
Bur Oak, 49 
Butterfly Caterpillar, Hackberry, 208 
Butternut, Characteristics, range and 
adaptability of, 104 
For roadside planting, 104 
Button-Ball tree, 34 
Buttonwood, 34 
California laws protect nut groves and 
fruit orchards, 97 
Live Oak, 49 
Old Redwoods, 120 
Shade Tree splendor of roads, 91 
Sycamore, 55 
Cambridge Elms, 125 
Camphor Tree, 58 
Canker, Nectria Cinnabarina, 176 
Cankerworm, 204 
Habits and Damage, 216 
Capitols, Shade trees of world’s, 19 
Carbon disulphid, How to use, 119 
Action of, 192 
Caring for shade trees, 131 
Carolina Poplar, 38, 63 
Carpenter worm, Habits and damage of, 
212, 216, 220 
Caterpillar, Habits and damage of Spiny 
Elm,202 208 
Hackberry butterfly, 208 
Cavities, Bolt reinforcement in large, 164 
How to fill, 162 
Treatment, 161 
Cedar apples, 182 
Cement dust injurious to foliage, 171 
Center strip type of street planting, 72 
Chamber of Commerce plants Memorial 
Trees, 118 
Charter Oak, Hartford’s, 231 
Chestnut Blight, 106 
Chestnut borer, Two-lined Oak and, 216 
Chestnut, Horse, 30, 64 
Chestnut not recommended for planting, 
io 7 . 
Chewing insects, 186 
Leaf, 187 
Chisel, Pruning, 148 
Circumference measurement method, 
The 235 
Cities famous for trees, 20 
Citrus fruits, Pecans replace, 100 
City authorities appraise shade trees, 
How, 233 
City Beautiful, 19 
City shade tree control, 223 
City trees, Struggle for existence of, 183 
Colton plan of shade tree valuation, 237 
Commission functions, How a shade tree, 
24 1 . 
Commission, Organization of a shade tree, 
227 
Powers of, 241 
Common and scientific names of trees, 
Use of, 27 
Community ownership of spraying and 
other equipment, 185 
Compressed air pumps, 193 
Conifers, The, 65 
Constitutional Elm, The, 124 
Contact insecticides, 187 
Contact sprays, Formula for various 
kinds of, 188 
Control of street planting, Importance 
of central, 224 
Cooperation in shade tree work, 246 
Cornwallis Oak, 124 
Cottonwood, 38 
Borer, 220 
Dagger Moth, 218 
Cottonwood, Poplar and Willow Leaf- 
beetle, 218 
Cottony Maple Scale, 213 
Creosote oil spray, Uses of, 190 
Creosote, Uses of, 145 
Cross of Trees at Macon, Georgia, 117 
Crotches, Splitting, 158 
Cultivation of base soil, 132 
Curb on tree planting, Effect of, 232 
Dagger Moth, Cottonwood, 218 
Damage to trees by gases, 166 
From excavation, 151 
Damage, Penalties for tree, 233 
Diameter measurement method, 235 
Diseases and their treatment, Tree, 172 
Diseases of trunks, limbs and roots, 174 
Foliage, 177 
Dust injurious to trees, Cement, 171 
Death of trees caused by gases and 
vapors, 171 
Dentistry, Tree, 161 
Danger from injury to street trees, 134 
District of Columbia, Famous trees of, 
122 
Digging for transplanting, 79 
Double action hand-pumps, 192 
Drainage of street trees, Irrigation and, 
84, 132 
Effect of leaking gas on trees, 167 
Effect of street on shade tree values, 232 
Elder, Ash-leaved Maple or Box, 32 
Principal insects attacking, 200 
