Report on the trees of Fairmount parkA study of the trees growing naturally in the park forests and of those planted for shade or decorative purposes . Forest of sprout growth Chestnut trees at Beechwood. These treesare djang rapidly, and prompt replanting with seedlings is needed in everyopening. unable to accomplish this apparently, and damage amountingto thousands of dollars is annually done by this cause detailing of two or three men to act as forest rangers dur-ing the danger seasons of fall and spring is therefore an appar-ent necessity. Last winter almost the entire Roberts Ho
Report on the trees of Fairmount parkA study of the trees growing naturally in the park forests and of those planted for shade or decorative purposes . Forest of sprout growth Chestnut trees at Beechwood. These treesare djang rapidly, and prompt replanting with seedlings is needed in everyopening. unable to accomplish this apparently, and damage amountingto thousands of dollars is annually done by this cause detailing of two or three men to act as forest rangers dur-ing the danger seasons of fall and spring is therefore an appar-ent necessity. Last winter almost the entire Roberts Hollow 27 tract was burned over, as well as one-half of Belmont Valley,Sweet Briar, Beechwood, and Fountain Green forests. And,as is well shown on the schedule cards, these fires not onlyinjure the younger trees and destroy entirely the rising gener-ation of seedlings, but they consume the humus or peat to suchan extent that the ground is left too poor to sustain the existing. Forest at Georges Hill, showing slope bare of undergrowth and trees are starving and dying in large numbers. large trees. The rate of decay among the older trees in thesetracts, where fires readily start from the railroad sparks, isalarming (see foot-note on schedule for Beechwood, page 37).Of equal importance is the work of replanting where thereis little or no natural seeding or where the hard-woods are dwindling away. Healthy young Oaks, Walnuts, Beeches,Chestnuts, and the like nobler trees of our forests should beplanted in every opening in the woods. A special effort couldwell be made in this work to obtain added local interest byplanting masses of Oaks in one section, Beeches in another,mixed hard-woods in a third, etc., thus providing for both the
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