. The care of trees in lawn, street and park. With a list of trees and shrubs for decorative use. Trees; Trees. THE CARE OF TREES CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY HIS book is not a sentimental effusion on the beauty and need of trees, but a compilation of information such as the owner of trees may be in search of. Throughout our entire continent, especially in its more settled parts, and most of all in its cities, there has never before been such widespread interest as is now manifested in trees and tree-planting for shade and ornament. Al- though this kind of tree-planting has been quite assiduously pr
. The care of trees in lawn, street and park. With a list of trees and shrubs for decorative use. Trees; Trees. THE CARE OF TREES CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY HIS book is not a sentimental effusion on the beauty and need of trees, but a compilation of information such as the owner of trees may be in search of. Throughout our entire continent, especially in its more settled parts, and most of all in its cities, there has never before been such widespread interest as is now manifested in trees and tree-planting for shade and ornament. Al- though this kind of tree-planting has been quite assiduously practised in past generations, and although as a result we are the heirs of stately elms and oaks and maples, the neces- sity of greater care for this inheritance has only of late been fully reahzed. As a consequence, the "Tree Warden" and "City Forester" have become recognized institutions, and the statutes of several states for the protection of planted trees bear testimony to the popular sentiment, and to the conception that the care of public shade trees is a public duty. Although with this awakened interest there has come forward a large amount of information regarding the care of trees, in the form of bulletins and essays, these generally confine themselves to some particular phase of the subject; a collective and more comprehensive manual, so far as the writer knows, is still lacking. It is to supply this gap that. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Fernow, B. E. (Bernhard Eduard), 1851-1923. New York Holt
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