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and showing the need of a comprehen- will conform in their tree planting 



sive plan for the whole street in the activities to the general plan indicated 



matter of tree removals and replanting, by the committee. 



The charts and the pamphlet together In addition to this landscape study, 



make it easily apparent that the usual the committee supplements the town 



aversion to any sort of thinning of and private activities in the nature of 



trees in public highways or parks is a spraying, trimming, and general care 



mistaken attitude. of the trees and expects to systematically 



The committee have as yet charted call the attention of the residents of the 



only those trees on the roadway side town to any State or Federal bulletins 



of the property lines, but it is expected on these general subjects as may be 



that property owners along the street, from time to time available for general 



which is widely known for its perspective distribution, 

 of arching trees and its well kept lawns, 



MARYLAND CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION 



THE first annual conference of the 

 Maryland Conservation Asso- 

 ciation at John Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, proved to be a very success- 

 ful and encotiraging gathering of Mary- 

 landers in the good cause. The preamble 

 to the by-laws of the association contains 

 the statement that this association has 

 been formed through the interest aroused 

 by the Fifth National Conservation 

 Congress, which was largely attended 

 by Marylanders. That those attending 

 the Congress felt desirous of advancing 

 the cause of conservation in Maryland, 

 and of reviving the organization formed 

 some years ago for that purpose. 



The addresses at the conference were 

 as follows : 



Conservation in the Nation and in the 

 State, Senator Moses E. Clapp, of 

 Minnesota. 



The Smith-Lever-A gricultural 

 Demonstration Bill, Congressman A. F. 

 Lever, of South Carolina. 



Relation of Farm Co-operative Dem- 

 onstration Work to Soil Fcrtilitv, Brad- 



ford Knapp, Esq., United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



Bird Refuges and Game Propagation, 

 John B. Burnham, Esq., New York, 

 President, American Game Protective 

 & Propagation Association. 



The Shellfish Industry, Dr. H. F. 

 Moore, Chief, Division of Fisheries. 



The Bearing of Pollution of Tidal 

 Water on Health, and the Necessity of 

 Control of Pollution, Surgeon H. S. 

 Gumming, United States Public Health 

 Service. 



The Value to Maryland of the Con- 

 trol of Water Carried Diseases in Town 

 and County, and Measures Necessary 

 to Accomplish It, Surgeon L. L. Limis- 

 den, United States Public Health Ser- 

 vice. 



Patapsco Forest Reserve, Miss Kath- 

 arine Liirman. 



Old Fort Frederick, Judge Henry 

 Stockbridge. 



Forestry, Dr. Henry S. Drinker, 

 President, American Forestry Associa- 

 tion and President, Lehigh University, Pa. 



GEORGE W. VANDERBILT DEAD 



IT WAS with the deepest regret that 

 members of the American Forestry 

 Association heard of the death re- 

 cently of Mr. George W. Vanderbilt, 

 of Washington, D. C, a vice president 

 of the association and a man who has 

 done much for the cause of forestry. The 

 success of the forest planting on the 



estate of Mr. Vanderbilt at Biltmore 

 has long been known to students of 

 forestry and has been an object lesson 

 and an inspiration for similar work in 

 other parts of the country. What Mr. 

 Vanderbilt has done for forestry' will 

 be the theme of an article in an early 

 issue of American Forestry. 



