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THE ARBORIST; pages about TOWN TREES

Edited by Jack S. Kaplan, Forester for the
Park Department, City of New York

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Look at your house from its most prominent view point from where passersby see it. Does it stand out too boldly like a picture without a frame? If so, plan to plant a few trees so that they will produce the desired effect. Do not depend on one specimen but plant groups of three or four. Besides the mutual protection they afford each other a group of trees stimulates height growth and hastens the ultimate desired result. The best trees for this purpose are the Red Oak, White Oak, Tulip tree, Sugar Maple, Elm, Horse Chestnut and Ginko.

Perhaps the foundation of your house is raised three or four feet and the transition from lawn to house is too abrupt. Picture a foundation planting massed sufficiently to soften the hard vertical line of the house with the horizontal lines of the lawn. Avoid in this connection unnatural groups of evergreens, with their varied colored foliage. If an evergreen group is desired use the broad leaved evergreen like Rhododendron and Azalias. Among the Rhododendrons sufficient assortment can be secured by using the more common Hybrids like Boule de Niege, Album Elegans, Pupureum Elegans, Everestianum, Charles Dickens, Kettledrum and Mrs. C. S. Sargent. An attractive deciduous shrub grouping can be secured by employing masses of Spireas, Deutzias, Wiegelas, Bush Honeysuckle, Viburnums and Barberry. Plan to space the shrubs about 21⁄2 feet apart. Most any nurseryman's catalogue will have some valuable sug. gestion for such a group.

Frequently you may have felt that your place does not have the privacy you desire. Mass plantings of Hydrangeas, Lilacs, Barberry, Dogwood, Witch Hazel, Viburnums, Aralias, Forsythia, and numerous other shade enduring plants can be successfully established along your property lines and in

a few years your home can be made as isolated or private as you wish-to heighten such a planting use a tree here and there like Norway Maple, Pin Oak, Beech, etc.

Among the specimen trees one might plant along a walk or in a lawn the most hardy are: the American elm, Ginko, Weeping Beech, Horse-chestnut, Basswood, Austrian Pine, Swiss Stone Pine, Red Cedar, Norway Maple, the Hawthorns, etc.

For Hedge material it is not always necessary to employ privet or Box, Barberry, Buckthorn, Hornbeam or Ironwood, Althea, and among the evergreens-Hemlock, Arbor Vitae, Japanese Holly, Norway Spruce and Yew are a few substitutes and frequently improvements on the more common hedge plants.

No matter what your needs may be, nature through her munificence can supply it. There is always a list of trees or shrubs from which to select

those you particularly need. Do your planting now so that the spring will find you ready.

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den so long as he is qualified by training and experience to efficiently care for your trees. Get busy now. Do not wait until you have lost some fine elms or oaks from in front of your city hall, or until the Tussock Moth has left your trees leafless-as it surely will next summer if you do not prepare now to eradicate it. Your trees need attention just as much as your roads need repair or your sewers or lights need replacement. See that they get it.

The
Thrifty
Swiss.

In Baden, Switzerland, for over 150 years the authorities have been planting fruit and nut trees along their roadways. Each tree yields an average crop worth $2.50 or a net profit of $1.60 per tree. This profit is ample to maintain the roads in excellent re pair. Here is a true combination of beauty and utility. When will some progressive county in the Empire State lead the way and revolutionize our theory of highway maintenance?

STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEBMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912.

Of New York Forestry," published quarterly at Syracuse, New York, for October, 1917.

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Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared Shirley Wallen, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the Editor of the New York Forestry," and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit:

1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are:

Publisher, New York State Forestry Association, Chamber of Commerce, Syracuse, N. Y.

Editor, Shirley W. Allen, Chamber of Commerce, Syracuse, N. Y.
Managing Editor, None.

Business Managers, None.

2. That the owners are: (Give names and addresses of individual owners, or, if a corporation, give its name and the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of the total amount of stock.)

Association supported by membership dues, none of which amount to one per cent of stock.

3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding one per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: (If there are none, so state.) None.

5. That the average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date shown above is 800. (This information is required from daily publications only.)

SHIRLEY W. ALLEN, Editor.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8th day of October, 1917.

[Seal.]

LILLIAN M. LANG.

(My commission expires March, 1919.)

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Incorporated, 1914

The New York State Forestry Association was organized in January, 1913, for the purpose of amalgamating the allied forest interests of the State into one compact body.

The Association now has a membership of over 600; it publishes a quarterly magazine devoted to the dissemination of information upon the Forestry situation within the State and plans to vastly increase its membership and influence during the coming year.

Too often an organization of this kind dissipates its energies in generalities. Appreciating this fact, the New York State Forestry Association has definitely set for its goal the following:

1. The promotion of the Forestry movement in New York State
by uniting in a single organization all who are interested.
2. The dissemination of information concerning the purpose,
value and effects of forests and to provide an organ in which
interests of the lumberman, sportsman and owner, manufac-
turer and all others may be brought together, and to solicit
free discussion on all public questions.

The Association also sets itself on record concretely in endeavoring to achieve the following:

To extend the protection from forest fires to all forest lands and to reduce the annual destruction caused by forest hres.

To educate public opinion in order that a rational policy be pursued in managing the forest lands owned by the State.

To extend the reforestation of idle land.

To insure a future supply of timber for the wood industries.
To protect our watersheds and conserve our stream flow.

Io maintain our forests so that they will protect game and fish
lite and best serve as a health resort and playground.

To secure more equitable taxation of forest land.

To take an active part in securing proper legislation necessary for forest conservation.

This work is more than an uplift movement, though we appreciate its sentimental appeal and are thankful for it. The problem is a practical one, and is right here on solid earth before us, a veritable "challenge of the future."

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