. Directions for the Planting and Care of Street Trees. east twenty-five or thirty feet apart to allow suflScientsunlight and air for their proper development. Tree Guards. Where a tree stands near a curb, a treeguard is required to protect the trunk from horses thousands of the existing trees have already beenruined for want of the proper tree guards. A cheap andefficient tree guard is made of heavy wire mesh, a goodbut more expensive one of iron rods. Allowing a tree guard to remain, after the tree has out-grown it, has caused the death of thousands of our expanding trun
. Directions for the Planting and Care of Street Trees. east twenty-five or thirty feet apart to allow suflScientsunlight and air for their proper development. Tree Guards. Where a tree stands near a curb, a treeguard is required to protect the trunk from horses thousands of the existing trees have already beenruined for want of the proper tree guards. A cheap andefficient tree guard is made of heavy wire mesh, a goodbut more expensive one of iron rods. Allowing a tree guard to remain, after the tree has out-grown it, has caused the death of thousands of our expanding trunk in such cases is girdled by the guardand the flow of sap cut off. Planting hy the Commission. It is the intention of theCommission to plant a certain number of streets eachyear with trees, protecting each tree with a guard. Resi-dential streets only will be selected, and the wider streetsfirst. Where there are existing unsightly, decayed ordangerous trees on these streets, they will be removed andreplaced with new ones. The removing of the condemned. Tree girdled by iron bandfrom old box. 6 trees and the planting and protecting of the new oneswill be charged to the property owners at cost. Care of Trees After Planting. For the first two orthree seasons a newly planted tree jeqiiires much if transplanted with care, many roots will be cut, and,unless those remaining are kept well supplied with waterduring the dry summer months, the tree will die for lackof nourishment. A soaking watering once a week should,therefore, be given during the dry weather. The groundabout the tree should also be loosened occasionally to enablethe air to circulate through the soil. The Commission, ex-pects to water, cultivate, prune, spray and care for newlyplanted trees with funds provided by the City property owners individual responsibility for the treesends with the planting. The trees will thus, as has beensaid before, become an asset or permanent improvement tothe prop
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