Bartlett Tree Experts

Bartlett Tree Experts was founded by Francis A. Bartlett in 1907 and is the world's leading scientific tree and shrub care company. From its over 100 offices worldwide, Bartlett helps both residential and commercial customers maintain beautiful, healthy trees. Bartlett is dedicated to developing environmentally sound products and promoting their use on our clients' properties. With the Bartlett Legacy Tree Program, Bartlett provides tree seedlings to help with reforestation efforts, and teaches people how to care for trees.

Francis A. Bartlett graduated from Massachusetts Agricultural College, now the University of Massachusetts; in 1905, (he would later accept an honorary doctorate at his alma mater). He taught horticulture at the Hampton Institute in Virginia for two years before a benefactor of that college persuaded him to relocate to the New York area, where many valuable shade and ornamental trees were declining and dying. Mr. Bartlett accepted the challenge by founding The F.A. Bartlett Tree Expert Company in 1907.

Mr. Bartlett had great curiosity and set about learning all he could about the physiology and care of trees and shrubs. His mission would be to provide preventive care that would assure good health, longevity, beauty, and safety for his clients' trees. He used the slogan, "America's Trees are Worth Saving."

Francis A. Bartlett's fundamental purpose for establishing the company that bears his name was to provide quality care and good value to owners and managers of landscape trees and shrubs by means of a basic, four-step plan:

1. Evaluate plant health, safety and appearance by means of a systematic and thorough inspection, or series of inspections;
2. Make an accurate, scientific diagnosis of plant problems and assess current and future plant requirements;
3. Provide a full range of necessary remedial treatments;
4. Design, create, and implement innovative, effective, long-term preventive care and maintenance programs.

Bartlett employees shall carry out their responsibilities with full honesty, integrity, and fairness, will strive for complete dependability, and will communicate openly with clients, prospects, employees, and the general public on matters involving our actions or intentions.

We are committed to providing scientifically based landscape management recommendations, delivering quality service, safely and at a level that meets or exceeds industry standards. We strive to achieve total client satisfaction.

Although our founder laid out his mission many years ago, we have found no reason to modify it over the decades that it has been in use. We enthusiastically support our founder's original purpose today, under the third generation of Bartlett family management.