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How to Lay Out a Small Town Park 



By Archibald Mitchell, of the Canadian Forestry Association's Staff 



During- tlie tour of the Tree Planting 

 Car of the Canadian Forestry Associa- 

 tion in tile ])rairie ])rovinces in the sum- 

 mer and fall, .Mr. Archibald Mitchell. 

 the Association's representative, pre- 

 l)ared numerous plans at the request of 

 municipal authorities and local societies 

 for the establishment of parks and the 

 re-arrangement of school and church 

 grounds. Mr. Mitchell in each instance 

 made a careful ])ersonal study of the local 

 situation and then drew up a complete 

 scheme of tree planting on which every 



reliance ma\- be ])laced. ( )ur Western 

 readers will note that Mr. .Mitchell 

 strongly favors in the case of small parks 

 the artistic grouping of trees so as to 

 form "islands" and deprecates the com- 

 mon practice of planting in straight 

 rows. 



The following article, originally pre- 

 pared for the information of the people 

 of lm])erial. Saskatchewan, contains so 

 much of value to other Western tcnvns 

 that it is herewith reproduced in full: 

 To understand the idea of this Park 



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