ARBORICULTURE 



A MONTHLY MAGAZINE 



Published in the Interest of the 

 International Society of Arboriculture. 



Subscription $1.00 per annum. John P. Brown, Editor and Publisher, Connersville, Indiana. 



Entered as Second-class Matter Jan\iary 1th, 1904. 



Volume V. 



Connersville, Indiana, January, 1906. 



Number 1. 



WILLIAM WATSON WOOLLEN 



AX APPRECIATION. 



Lying along the quiet, pea(:c:^ul littie 

 stream of Fall Creek, so far awa\ i'-om 

 the States Capitol that none of its hurry 

 and bustle, or dust and soot are present, 

 and yet so near that the top of the monu- 

 ment is visible from the wooded hill- 

 tops, is Buzzard's Roost, dedicated to 

 the love of Nature. Here no birds may 

 be frightened as they build their nests 

 and rear their young, and they sing their 

 sweet songs unhanned in the green ra- 

 vines and shaded nooks ; here no other 

 living thing, either beast or plant, is dis- 

 turbed, and the wild flowers grow in 

 great profusion, covering the hillside in 

 the springtime, and the wild creatures of 

 the woods whisk joyfully among the 

 trees. In this busy twentieth century, 

 when the dollar has assumed so much 

 importance", there are too few places 

 where nature is allowed to garden as 

 she will. It is a common sight to see 

 large farms with no forest reservation, 

 but field after field of waving corn or 

 wheat where once stood the monarch s of 

 the forest, and we have all but forgotten 

 that in these very places the wind once 

 sang her wild, sweet songs through the 

 tree tops, and that wild birds once 



poured forth their jubilant notes. And 

 so we are led to wonder how it happens 

 that so close to a busy city there is a 

 place where the wild wood folk still have 

 a paradise. It is all because one man is 

 a lover of nature, and a lover of hu- 

 manity, and because he is anxious to 

 help future generations to this knowl- 

 edge, because he believes it will sweeten 

 and strengthen their lives and help them 

 to become good citizens. 



Air. Woollen discovered Buzzard's 

 Kuost some eight years ago as he 

 I ramped along Fall Creek on Easter 

 v'^undav. He was surprised to find so 

 dense a forest so near to Indianapolis, 

 and as he stood in its depths he then and 

 there determined to purchase the place, 

 and to some day give it to the city as a 

 place for nature study for the school 

 children. He has since that time been 

 constantly developing it, and he has pro- 

 vided in his will that Buzzard's Roost 

 shall be the property of the city of In- 

 dianapolis, for the use of its schools. 



We are apt sometime to be skeptical 

 and to believe that the noble things were 

 done only in the past, and we forget 

 that there are to-day men who are la- 



