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Category Minimum Mean Maximum City size (population) 23,000 53,000 175,000 Annual Tree care budget (dollars) 20,000 198,000 1,000,000 Nursery Size (acres) ◀1.0 2.2 6.0 Inventory (trees) 200 830 4,000 Age (years) 3 20 50 Annual maintenance budget (dollars)* 1,300 5,500 12,000 Annual percentage of tree division—time spent on nursery operation 1.0 3.8 7.0 Annual percentage of municipal budget spent on nursery operations 0.1 2.8 6.5 ↵* Costs and time allocations refer to bare-root trees only.
Type % of nurseries planting Maple 100 Ornamental pear 85 Oak 62 Littleleaf linden 46 Ornamental cherry 46 Flowering crabapple 38 Zelkova 38 Sweetgum, Ash and Honeylocust 31 Category Cost $ % Purchase price 12.50 40.9 Mortality factor 2.25 7.4 Planting cost .80 2.6 Maintenance cost (3 years) 10.20 33.4 Lifting cost 4.80 15.7 Total 30.55 100.0