HARRISBURG'S MUNICIPAL FOREST 



735 



I. C. Williams, Deputy State Forestry Commissioner, Showing a Little Girl How to Plant 



One of the White Pine Seedlings 



than the boys. As the planting was 

 limited to one of the largest schools of 

 the city, a certain sense of riyalry was 

 displayed by the ones not included in 

 the exercise. Pupils from other schools 

 passing by were invited to join in, but 

 they said, "We'll show you we can 

 plant ours better than you when our 

 turn comes." 



It is the plan to mark each schools' 

 work and carry these plantings every 

 fall and spring Arbor Day until all the 



waste places now given over to growing 

 w^eed trees like Aspen, Maple, Alders 

 and Birches wnll be reclaimed to more 

 desirable species, and a forest primeval 

 is again established. 



Considering the proposition from a 

 commercial point of view, under system- 

 atic management, the annual returns 

 from the sale of timber from this park 

 should more than pay the expenses of 

 maintenance. 



