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take a personal interest in the adornment of their towns is proved 

 by the fact that the whole of these beautiful gardens are entirely- 

 unprotected. The people are free to roam about at will, to rest 

 underneath the spreading branches of the trees, and admire the 

 many tinted flowers ; and yet not a branch is broken, nor a flower- 

 bud ruthlessly destroyed. We may well ask when the youths of 

 our Scottish cities will become so enamoured of nature that they 

 can be trusted to wander about in our public gardens without risk 

 of their committing wanton mischief ; and yet it may be, that if 

 our towns and villages were more lavishly planted with trees, and 

 if our city toilers had more opportunity of resting beneath the 

 cool shade of their branches, they would learn to appreciate more, 

 and would take a greater personal in, everything tending to the 

 beautification of their surroundings. 



It was at Jonkoping that the real work of the Excursionists 

 began ; the first place of interest to visit there being the famous 

 Munksjo Paper-Mills. Here they saw the actual process by which 

 whole spruce trees, shorn of their branches only, become in an 

 incredibly short time transformed into the strongest roofing paper, 

 or into the thinnest and most delicate tissue paper ; and this is 

 accomplished without waste of any of the materials employed. 

 Sawdust, bark, and knots, which cannot be used for pulping 

 purposes, are used in the furnaces as fuel. Unlike ourselves in 

 Scotland, the Swede has discovered the secret of putting almost 

 every description of forest produce to some practical use. Between 

 the making of pulp and charcoal, two very important industries in 

 Sweden, practically every inch of wood is put to a paying use ; 

 and herein lies most of the Swedish forester's success. 



After leaving the pa|)er-mills, a visit was paid to the world- 

 famed safety match factory. To those of an ingenious turn of 

 mind, and especially to those interested in machinery, was here 

 presented a sight which was worth travelling many miles to see. 

 When following the various stages in the development of the 

 match, from the rough aspen blocks as they are brought into 

 the mills, to the stamped and finished article, one is forced to 

 come to the conclusion that never before was machinery brought 

 to such a state of perfection. Each operation is carried through 

 with the utmost exactness and expedition; and although in this 

 factory upwards of eight hundred men and women are employed, 

 their work is simply to attend to the various machines, each of 

 which has its own particuliu- duty to perform. The invention of 



