A WELL EQUIPPED GREENWICH NURSERY 



Production as Important as Conserva- 

 tion. 



Everybody approves or, at least, 

 everybody should approve of a conser- 

 vation of our forests, and all nature 

 lovers certainly approve of the use of 

 trees and shrubs for decorative pur- 

 poses. Rut it often occurs to us that 

 Arbor Day methods as practiced in 

 our schools are not good, and that 



schools. In other words, the too com- 

 mon practice is to transplant a strong 

 tree from its natural environment in 

 the woods and put it out in a locality 

 not adapted to its needs, where the sun- 

 light, the moisture, the gases in the 

 air, the nourishment in the soil, differ 

 from those to which the tree has been 

 accustomed in its native habitat, and 

 where it must struggle for its existence 



THE ATTRACTIVE ENTRANCE TO DEHN & BERTOLF'S NURSERY. 



much of the advice that we receive in 

 regard to the setting out of trees is 

 equally worthless. 



When we moved here and took pos- 

 session of the premises, the place, so 

 far as trees and shrubs were concerned 

 was barren. The advice of several 

 friends was, "You can go to Mr. Blank 

 whose woods are full of trees, and he 

 will give you all you want free of cost." 

 To accept Mr. Blank's intended kind- 

 ness would have been pernicious prac- 

 tice, but it would have been exactly the 

 Arbor Day method of most of the 



against possibly overwhelming odds. 

 Besides this, our New England woods 

 need every tree they have. The proper 

 place to which to go for a tree or a 

 shrub is a nursery where young trees 

 and shrubs are cultivated. The schools 

 will never carry out the best thought 

 regarding Arbor Day until the pupils 

 have been taught to raise trees from 

 seeds. We want tree planting, not the 

 mere setting out of trees. We firmly 

 believe that one of the most important 

 factors in modern nature interests is a 



