Abbot B. Silva to Charles W. Chesnutt, 13 April 1922
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ABBOT B. SILVA
CONSULTING FORESTER
THE SILVA-PFEIFER COMPANY
LANDSCAPE FORESTRY
3280 EAST FAIRFAX ROAD
FAIRMOUNT 2719
CLEVELAND, OHIO
WILLIAM C. PFEIFER
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
April 13, 1922
Mr.C.W.Chestnut,
9719 Lamont Ave.,
Cleveland,O.
Dear Mr.Chestnut:
This is to confirm our conversation of this evening, relative to certain work necessary on your trees.
We will spray your trees at the proper time for the "Corolla spray" and also at that time, if you wish, we will do what little trimming is necessary and also put cables where needed for protection from split crotches. As I suggested the large maple in front of the house should have several feet taken out of the top, both for safety and for the good of the tree. I will call you up before we come to do the spraying so that you may have time to decide as to this other work.
If you wish to join the ever increasing number of people who are employing us permanently we will be glad to list you. Our annual retainer fee for a place with as few trees as yours is $6.00 . For this you get frequent inspections during the summer months so that no trouble can get too far on the trees without being discovered. Actual work on the trees is necessarily extra. Let us hear from you.
Sincerely yours, THE SILVA-PFEIFER COMPANYCorrespondent: Abbott Beecher Silva (1885–1958) was born in Thomasville, Georgia, to the renowned landscape painter William Posey Silva and Catherine Beecher Silva. After graduating from the Yale Forest School in 1909, he worked for the U.S. Forest Service in Missoula, Montana. There, he met and married Gladys L. Heyward in 1914. In 1917, he was living in Kent, Ohio and working for the Tree Science company. As an arborist in Cleveland, he first worked in partnership with William C. Pfeifer and later as the sole owner of Silva Abbott Tree Care Company. He retired to Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
