Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-04


shows the lack of years of proper at
tention.
Need More Money
With an appropriation sufficiently
large to carry on the tree maintenance
and development work, backed by a
competent shade tree commission to
conduct the necessary legislative work,
municipal circles generally figure that
City Forester Gipple could give the
trees all the attention required.
OF all the variety of trees that were
counted, according to City Forester
Gipple few of them were of the proper
species, most of them showed the re-
suits of poor trimming, butchering.
lack of pruning, disregard of relative
distances for planting, absence of
guards to prevent the running of the
trees by gnawing horses.
Few Good Trees
Here and there there are some rare
old trees although Forester Gipple
advises that the choice for planting
should be selected from any of these
families-Norway, silver and sugar
naples, oriental planes. pin and red
oak, American elms and European
lindens.
Elms however, are advised only for
the broader streets and boulevards,
principally Front and State streets.
Tussock and other moths do ire
| parable damage among the trees and
| this could be minimized in the
opinion of Mr.. Gipple, by instituting
city-wide campaign against the
The cooperation of the city school
children, the Civic Club or kindred
organization could we'll be obtained in
this fight.
Good Results on Little Funds
Lack of money has brought the
tree work almost to standstill now
as there is no longer any money to
| pay for assistance and the work that
has been done, had to be paid for out
of the regular maintenance fund of
the park department. With the ex-
| ception of his salary of $1,000 Mr..
! Gipple has had no appropriation for
his department.
"City Forester Mueller asked for an
appropriation of $4,000 and he could
have used every cent of it," said For
ester Gipple However, / should be
tickled to death if 1 got, say three or
four or five thousand. I'd just like
to have enough money to pick out an
average section of the city and show
to Council and the people what can
be done in the way of properly caring
for the trees"
Passing of Park Trees
While the trees on the streets, gen.
orally speaking, are in poor shape, the
Unless our river park is given at
tention, the trees there will be alb
solutely no good twenty years from
now" declared the forester. I'VE
should plant trees now, and we could
use fifty or seventy-tive of them very
easily to replenish the groves"
Notwithstanding his lack of funds
the forestry department accomplished
mighty good work this summer for in |
addition to his other duties Mr.. Gipple
had to give much of his attention to !
the island nursery. More than 200 |
permits for new trees were issued and |
In each instance, personal investiga- |
ton of the site was made; more than
a hundred complaints for tree trim !
ming, pruning, etc, required the
forester's personal supervision.
The Caterpillar War
While spraying is necessary to pro- |
long the life of the trees, Mr.. Gipple !
believes as much good can be accom-
plished-at least so far as the cater |
pillars are concerned-by waging a
decided war against these pests. BY
offering small cash prizes to the school |
children and paying for egg-masses
and coccoons by a method similar to |
that adopted by the Civic Club in the |
fly swatting campaigns, the forester |
believes admirable results may be OBJ |
tained.
The tree census completed to date
shows the distribution of trees as fol- |
lows
East side of Front street, S36; Sec
ond, 557 Penn, 167: Green, 450: Sus-
quehanna, As; Third. 291; Capital
SOL; Fifth, 252; Sixth, 427; Seventh,
143; Lexington, 81; Logan, As; Eas,
SO: jefferson, 1856: Cowden, 81; Wal
lace. 81; James, II; Williams, ell
Marion, 9; Montgomery, 10; Grand.
Il: Fulton, As; Agate, Z; Moore, 2S;
Emerald, IS; Seneca IA; Walnut, 81;
Locust, 20; Pine, As; South, 80; State,
rs: North, 90; Foster. 90; Briggs, 90:
Boas, 1872: Herr, Sc; Cumberland. 100;
Verbeke. IS; Calder. 1873; Reilly, 131;
Harris, 179: Hamilton, 149; Kelker,
146, Muench, 176; PETER. 19S and
Maclay III.