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THE TREE DOCTOR 



Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture ; Congressmen ; Rev. Edward 

 Everett Hale, Chaplain of Senate ; Presidents of Railroads ; Pres- 

 idents of the great Lumber Companies ; representatives of 

 Women's Clubs, and a host of others. What appeared very en- 

 couraging was a part of the report of Mr. J. T. Richards, Chief 





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 The Beauty of a Curve. 



Engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad System. Said he : 

 "Within the last two years we have begun the planting of the 

 Yellow Locust trees on an extensive scale on property owned by 

 the Company." From what I can gather, a part of these plant- 

 ings are on the lands along by the tracks, embankments, nooks 

 and corners and strips of land such as I saw planted to them 

 along the Juniata River, between Harrisburg and Altoona, Pa. 

 Gentlemen, you are going to fail in such places. The plantings 

 that I saw had received no cultivation, and long grass was grow- 



