INDEX 
Pruning, Necessity of, 139 
Reasons for, 138 
Results of, 139 
Root and branch, 138 
Time for, 139 
Tools, 141 
Top, 139 
Pruning tools required, Number of, 147 
Pruning wounds, Protection of, 144 
Pubescent oak kermes, 217 
Red maple, 32,59 
Red Oak, 45 
Redwood, Gen. Sherman, 120 
Reinforcement in large cavities, 164 
Remembrance, The Roads of, 115 
Rent, Pecan harvest pays, 99 
Repair of shade trees, 156 
Replacement of shade trees, 43 
Replacement value of shade trees, 234 
Resistance to gas, 170 
Roadbuilding by states, 115 
Roads of Remembrance endorsed by 
White House, 115, 116 
Roadside planting by clubs and schools, 
116 
Japanese walnut for, 105 
Trees adapted for general, 92 
Roadside Trees, Desirable, 92 
Roadsides, Nut and fruit trees on Euro¬ 
pean, 97 
Root absorption, 133 
Root-prune before planting, 81 
Root-rot, 175 
Roots injured by sewers and pipes, 150 
Roth, Filibert, 231 
Roth Method, The, 235 
Russo-American Oak in White House 
grounds, 121 
Rust, Appearance of, 181 
Fruiting bodies of, 182 
San Jose scale, 197, 202, 211, 219 
Saprophyte, 172 
Sap-sucking insects, 197, 199 
Work and control of, 187 
Saving gas injured trees, 168 
Sawfly, Large Elm, 205 
Scale, Cottony Maple, 213 
European Elm, 207 
Gloomy, 214 
Obscure, 217 
Oyster-shell, 201, 210, 211, 213, 220 
San Jose, 197, 202,211,219 
Terrapin, 214 
Tulip tree soft, 222 
Scarlet Oak, 47 
Selection of trees for planting, 41 
Sewer and pipe injury to roots, 150 
255 
Shade tree commission, How to organize, 
226, 227 
Financing of, 227 
Duties of, 241 
Shade tree injury from atmospheric influ¬ 
ences, 169 
Shade tree legislation, 240 
Shade tree planting, 76 
Shade tree splendor of California roads, 91 
Shade tree valuation, factors in, 232 
The Roth method, 23 5 
Shade trees and the law, 240 
Shade trees, Enemies of, 149 
Legal value of, 231 
Methods of determining value, 232 
The Roth method, 235 
Circumference measurement method, 
235 
Diameter measurement method, 235 
Square-foot basal area method, 23 5 
Square-inch basal area method, 236 
Municipal control of, 223 
Pruning and trimming, 138 
The placing of, 68 
Utility of, 19 
Selected List covering adaptability, 
soil requirements and general 
characteristics with reference to 
street planting: 
Ailanthus, or Tree of Heaven, 66 
American or White Elm, 50 
Ash-leaved Maple (Box Elder) 62 
Basswood, or American Linden, 52 
Beech, 64 
Big-leaf Maple, 61 
Black Locust, 65 
Bur Oak, 49 
California Live Oak, 49 
California Sycamore, 55 
Camphor Tree, 58 
Carolina Poplar, 63 
English Elm, 51 
European Linden, 53 
Ginkgo, 51 
Green Ash, 57 
Hackberry, 66 
Honey Locust, 67 
Horse Chestnut, 64 
Huntington Elm, 51 
Laurel Oak, 48 
Live Oak, 47 
Lombardy Poplar, 62 
London Plane, 54 
Magnolia, 58 
Mountain Ash, 64 
Norway Maple, 58 
Oriental Plane, 55 
Palmetto, 58 
Pecan, 64 
