Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1915 — TREES ON PUBLIC STREETS [ARTICLE]

TREES ON PUBLIC STREETS

New York Authority Would Have Municipalities Take Up Work of Planting and Care. ♦ The New York State college of forestry at Syracuse university is urging the municipalities of the state to take up public control of street tree planting and preservation in the same manner as public control Is exercised over other street improvements. During the last year the college has made investigation of the shade trees in many cities and towns of the state, including New York city, Syracuse, Binghamton, Amsterdam, Mt Vernon, Newburg and Olean. It has been found that thousands of shade trees are dying along the streets of the cities due to past mistakes In teelection Of varieties and in spacing the trees at the time of planting. Within the cities of the state there are, it is said, 20,000 miles of street capable of sustaining a growth of 5,000,000 shade trees, which can be made worth >100,000,000 In increased property value. Buffalo spends annually about >75,000 for planting and conservation of shade trees along its public streets. Almost half of the land area of New York state is better suited. It Is said, to the growing of timber than to agriculture. Agriculture alone cannot solve the land problems of the state. Forestry and agriculture are co-or-dinate, and together will bring about the most effective utilization of the soils of the state and of the country. —New York Press.