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would be refuges for birds and wild flowers. They 

 would furnish places for studying many things that 

 would add interest to life. They would perpetuate 

 for future generations the many natural charms which 

 have delighted the boys and girls of the past gener- 

 ation, charms which are now lost in many places, 

 but which might be restored with advantage. 



The assistants who would have charge of definite 

 stretches of the river forests just described would be 

 equipped for their work by being especially trained 

 as landscape-gardeners and foresters. The two pro- 

 fessions can well be combined in one for work of this 

 kind. An assistant with this training might have 

 charge of a stretch of many miles of forest border- 

 ing our waterways. He would direct laborers who 

 would grow to love their work. This work would 

 consist in cutting certain trees and shrubs, the re- 

 moval of which would improve the general effect or 

 benefit the better trees and shrubs which remained. 

 The material cut would in many cases produce fire- 

 wood, which would have some value, and at times 

 trees which had reached maturity would be cut for 

 saw logs which would produce good lumber. The 

 small branches and refuse could be burned on adjoin- 

 ing farms, where the ashes would make a good fer- 



