Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-11
TO ARCH STREETS
WITH BIG TREES
Maps and Photographs to Show
City's Hope For Future
Identification

How Harrisburg, in the future,
hopes to arch it's streets with trees will
be Interestingly shown by maps and
photographs by the city forestry de-
partment at the State Welfare and
Efficiency Conference to be held in this
city November 1919.
The city exhibit will be featured in
connection with the State forestry con-
serVation exhibit and City Forester
Harry j. Mueller is now preparing a
series of maps, photograph pieces
or tree bark, branches, twigs and
leaves, showing the various kinds of
scale, tree lice, moths and other pests.
Whether or not the display of tus-
SOCK and other moths can be arranged
on the scale that Mr.. Mueller hopes is
questionable, but he has planned to
give Harrisburg folks mighty lifelike
idea of some nightmareish-lo looking
worms and things. Not the least of
these are few of the long, fat, green
Worms-gaudy moths in the primary
stage-that boast of big red eyes and
long horns. The average American
youngster knows 'em more Familiarity
as tobacco worms"
Listen-Ugh!
The city forester isn't sure yet that
he can provide for this feature of the
display, but if it is possible he expects
to show some of these crawlers as they
appear in life. The method of pre-
serving and mounting them as de-
scribed by Mr.. Mueller is a trifie
shivery to listen to. First, he says,
the fat, bright green worm is chloro-
formed. Then tiny holes are bored
through the skin along the spine
Ihen by means of tiny thin straw
like tube the taxidermist blows out the
subjects ''innards.' Its Just like
blowing through putty blower" said
Mr.. Mueller, matter -factly. in de-
scribing the process. Who'd do it?
Why, l could easily do it myself" he
answered casually. And he never even
murmured an "ughw When only the
green shell remains, the forester con-
cluded. 1t is roasted over an alcohol
hame for a few minutes in order that
1t may become thoroughly hardened.
Then the exhibit" is inflated with air
to its natural size. the tube holes are
sealed-and the. shivery visitor at the
forestry exhibit can gaze upon a long
green worm or caterpillar that looks
Just ready to swing from its leaf to-
Oh! horrors-perhaps, ones hat.
In addition to the pest exhibit Mr..
Mueller will devote a portion of the
city display to sections of tree trunks
and branches, showing proper and i'm
proper methods OF pruning, trimming
and treatment.
The City's Plans
The proposed plan for tree planting
on the streets under the city's compre-
hensive scale will be cleverly shown
by means of big map and colored
crayons. From time to time as the
present trees decay or have to be re-
moved.for some other cause the city's
plan will be to replace these trees with
those of the type selected and the
type selected for the particular street
The various streets to be planted and
the type Of trees to be chosen as will
be shown on. Forester Mueller's map,
will be as follows:
Front and Cameron streets from end
to end of the city and West State
street, American elms: Second street,
red oak; Third and East State streets,
European lindens; Berrvhill, pin oaks;
Market. tulip trees: Green, Maclay,
Fourteenth and some of the other
cross streets. Norway naples;
Eighteenth, red oak: Pine street and
other highways which have more or
less narrow pavements. maiden hair
fern trees.