New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-14
THE HEALTH OF TREES
Care for Them in England and
America.

TREES AND SHRUBs or H. .i5eS + E y
civsi V WesseIi. F. l. S Illustrated by
G T. Newaii: Iwo yo D,I1tan s e Sn
THE CARE OF TREES IN LAWN;
STREET AND PARK. BY Bernhard
e Fernow. Illustrated. tAmerican
Nature series) limo, pp. So Henry
Holt & Co
The two big volumes on British trees
and shrubs fer which Mr.. c. s. Cooper
is chiefly responsible are as beautifully
made as they are technically accurate,
detailed and useful. The sixteen full
page coIored plates and the seventy full
page black and white plates were drawn
direct from nature by Mr. NevaN, who is
a clever botanist as we'll as artist These
drawings are wonderfully truthful and
are charming in color and in delicacy of
lire. Careful and complete descriptions
Of trees and shrubs are presented. to-
getaer with interesting discussions of
such subjects as insect and fungoid pests
and gals, reaforestation. fTuiting trees
and shrubs for decorative effect. the
study OF winter buds and the like. =
chapter on useful insects deals with often
forgotten agents of which the author
says that were il not .for their presence
III the enemys camp certain insect
scourges would get beyond control. A
chapter on fungicides and insecticides is
full OF valuable formula. The work ap-
peals as forcibly to tree loving Americans
as ta-British amateurs.
a truly admirable book for those who
are undertaking tree planting on q coun-
try estate. on village acres or in a town
park or streets is that just published by
Mr.. FernoW. professor of forestry in the
University Of Toronto. IT is eninently
practical, especially in its advice as to
the care of trees and its details as to the
ills to which they are subject There are
sick trees. as there are sick people, and
their diseases arc nearly always amen
able TO treatment when taken in time.
Trees in place. the author tells us, may
be made almost inperishable by the
trained doctor. and ne points out that the
judicious care of trees has not kept pace
with the activity in planting OF the last
fifty Years He holds that prevention is
better than cure, and he dweils on the
conditions Of proper food. drink, air and
light. which are the needs of trees.
Street and lawn trees are the greatest
sufferers for lack of these conditions, yet
even for them something may be done
which means new life. The skilled doc
torirg IF aged trees works wonders. es-
peciafly in veterans whose hollow cores
are filled with cement, as dentist fills a
tooth. ana whose health is restored by
soil Improvement and better water sup
ply. Air. FernoW devotes much space to
the enemies of trees and the best meth
DDS of dealing with them. His list of
trees desirable for shade and ornament is
full and most valuable one, and the il
Illustrations that accompany it are en-
tightening. The book should be studied
in a country which still holds too much
of the spirit of the pioneer days in re-
SpecJ TO trees. To cut, to root out utterly
and do away with trees for the making
% field and pasture was natural enough
q hundred years ago, but il was task
carried to extremes, as witness the high
ways left bare Of shade III summer and
piled with snowdrifts in winter. Even
now there are very few country districts
! II our older states where the impulse to
cut down 6 tree at every excuse or
chance is not to be observed.