Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1915 — SAVING NEW YORK’S TREES [ARTICLE]

SAVING NEW YORK’S TREES

Planting Association of the Great Metropolis Finds Itself Facing J - a Hard Problem. Manhattan presents a hard problem for those who want to beautify the metropolis with shade trees. It seems that certain, streets are not altogether hopeless, according to the report of the Tree Planting association of New York, just out. Such are Seventh avenue and Lenox from One Hundred and Tenth street up; Broadway north from Fifty-ninth street, also West End avenue, West One Hundred and Thirty-eighth, West Seventy-ninth street, etc. On all of these there are plantations at present. In spite of the fact that some people have the idea that New York has few shade trees there are, dozens of varieties of all shades and styles and patterns, from aristocratic shade trees to scraggy slum dwarfs. Tree doctors and surgeons are very necessary, and tree surgery has become quite a definite science. Many a fine old tree is saved by “filling its tooth,” as it were—that is, filling its hollow cavity with to prevent further decay. f. The committee of the association has divided up New York into districts for special examination, and the report on the different geographical locations is exhaustive.