Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1918 — TREES GIVEN PROPER CARE [ARTICLE]

TREES GIVEN PROPER CARE

Massachusetts Municipalities Praised by Writer in National Municipal Review for Good Work. Springfield, Mass., is a striking example of the fine results' of a municipality making it its business to care for its trees. Walk up State street from Main. Note the majestic elms on this broad highway. As you pass •the intersecting streets, look north and south on each and see, as far as eye can reach to left and right, the towering rows of lofty trees waving thelri green tops in the breeze, the sun glinting through the verdant roof that forms an arch high up above the road. The like amplitude of stately old trees, some of them of century age, adorns all the older residence of Springfield; while “on the hill” where the city is spreading toward the east the newly opened streets are glorious with young trees. Both old trees and young are thriving. „ No tree that is dead, or unsightly past remedy, is allowed to stand. The city takes it down forthwith. The most sedulous care is bestowed on all trees, whether old or young. All this, remember, by the municipality itself, through JJs city forester. Appropriations for tree work are generous. The like policy prevails, and the like results are manifest, in nearly all the municipal!tle> 6f Massachusetts. National Municipal Review. . /