The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-10-18
WOMAN'S TOWN IMPROVEMENT
COMMITTEE.

The following valuable information
in regard to the Maple Psendococcus
has been furnished by the MADE Tree
committee and is Of particular interest
at this season Of the falling maple
leaves. Late in the summer the
trunks and sometimes the branches Of
the hard naples become covered with
a white cottony or waxy substance,
beneath which will be found yellow
ism, crawling, grub-like creatures.
These sometimes increase so greatly
in number that they form veritable
layers, coating the trunks completely
and extending to the leaves. When
the latter are attacked they are apt to
turn yellow and drop, so that in severe
cases a tree becomes partly defoliated
earlier in the season than is normal.
The insect winters In the partly grown
condition, hiding in the crevices of
the bark, and not until after mid
summer does it usually become abund-
ant enough to attract attention
When the infected leaves drop to
the ground they should be regularly
raked up and burnt. In the cities and
t, WINS where water pressure is ayaila-
BILE, a-solid jet from hose on the in
fected trunk will wash out and destroy
the vast majority of the specimens,
leaving not enough TO do any harm.
In winter the tree-trunks may be
sprayed with one Of the miscible oils
like Scalecide, I" diluted with ten
parts OF v alter and applied with suffi-
Gent force to penetrate into every
|creyice and inequality of the bark.
This will kill the alternating forms
and prevent any start next season.
The following communication has
been received by the Woman's Town
improvement committee:
A PLEA FOR LIGHT AND AIR.
Within the memory of the oldest in
habitant, and of some, perhaps, who
have not yet arrived at that distinc-
tion, Morristown was known as far
famed health resort. Physicians in
Europe mentioned to their American
patients, and possibly to others, Nor
risuown, N. j., U. S. A. No one had
any throat difficulties here and malar-
ia was unheard Of and the general
health Of the happy jewellers Of the
then little village was remarkably
good. Now we seem to have our share
Of illness of various sorts, and rhema-
tism is alas an all too general com.
plant. In the mind OF the writer the
difference is chiefly because of toe
many trees.
Stepping of the train on glori0u:
day OF sunshine, when the blue Sep
TENDER sky stretches cloudless above
us, If one has been for time away
from Morristown, one is anew amazed
and distressed at the comparative
darkness OF our city. Elm street or
one hand and Morris avenue on the
other lie in dense shade which not q
sunbeam penetrates. Some shade is
OF course, desirable, but so many tree
so crowded together, keep not only
the health-giving sunlight away but
cooling breezes asiwell and make oul
streets even hotter In summer thar
they must be. In many and many 9
private place the same over-crowdine
is manifest at glance. About here
someone exclaims to himself would
they like to cut down all our beautiful
old trees? the vandals (" No, deal
reader, not all-oniy about every othel
tree 10 some localities; in some Others
it might be we'll to even set out trees
James Russell Lowell, great lover o.
trees, as well as great poet, said o.
them in the college-yard at Cambridge
in his day, "They remind me always
of young authors first volume O
poems, there are too many Of 'em, ant
too many of one kind and quotes
Hesoid in this connection, I" the hal
is better than the whole"
| A similar criticism OF Morristowr
has been made BY visitors. Lowell
goes on to say that one fine tree Il
worth more than any mob of SECOND
rate ones and to plead that the mol
may be cleared away from each flint
one that it may, in Chaucer's words
"stand well from ihis fellow apart.
IF we will only let a tree alone" HI
says, 81 it will build itself with a no
bleness Of proportion and grace of de
tail that Giotto himself might have
envied."
How much more beautiful as wei
as more healthful our town might bt
If only carloads ofStrees were removed
from it Many Of our residents are
already convinced that their neigh
bors ought to cut down some of theil
trees, but few, or none, seem ready tt
take the iniative and begin to dC
something besides talk of doing
| Would 1t not be a great triumph fol-
the Woman's Town Improvement
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