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Title: American forests
Identifier: americanforests20natiuoft (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: National Irrigation Association (U. S. ); New Jersey Forestry Association; South Jersey Woodmen's Association; American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry -- Periodicals
Publisher: Washington (etc. ) American Forestry Association (etc. )
Contributing Library: Earth Sciences - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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564 AMERICAN FORESTRY
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Ph A Cemented Cavity in an Elm Tree. A considerable amount of tree repair work similar to this shown in the photograph has been done on the trees along Seventh Avenue on Man- hattan. A careful examination of the work shows that it has not been properly done and a large amount of money has been expended with- out bringing about the desired results. ated shall go into actual care and main- tenance of trees and not to the creation of office positions. In the field there should be working under the Forester's direction a sufficient number of ar- boriculturists to handle the different branches of the work of this depart- ment. For instance, in Brooklyn, there is at the present time an arboriculturist for the parks and two for the streets of the city. These three arboriculturists in this case should be under the direc- tion of the Forester, who could coordi- nate and direct their work to bring about the maximum results of their efforts. The arboriculturist should be a man filling his position through civil service examination, and while his knowledge and experience are not nec- essarily as broad as that of the For- ester, it should, however, be along sim- ilar lines so that the arboriculturist may work in harmony with the Forester and intelligently execute the details of his position. Under the arboriculturist would be the foreman and the work- men. It is a general custom to differ- entiate the work of the laborers. For instance, those who do pruning which requires a considerable amount of climbing and those who carry on spray- ing which requires some knowledge of spray materials and mixing. The Forester should be able to give effectively instructional lectures re- garding the work. One very important feature in connection with tree work in our cities is the education of the people not only as to the beauty but as to benefits from planting of trees in a city. The functions of the Bureau of Tree Culture in the Park Commission would be to serve as a connecting link between the Foresters of each borough, who should come together for periodical meetings where broad questions that aff'ect the general welfare of the trees of the city as a whole should be dis- cussed. Features connected with the work of each man's bcrrough could be discussed profitably, and the experience of all the Foresters cou'.d be brought to bear on the problems that come up in

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