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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



blue spruce and Lawson cypress. (Fig. 12.) The tormer 

 was somewhat injured at the tip before the worms were 

 discovered but hand picking and arsenate of lead spray 

 cleaned out the invaders. 



The large bed at the right in Figure 14 is the Japanese 

 rose, rosa rugosa. This has rich, glossy, crinkled foliage, 

 beautiful all season and large white and red single roses. 

 In the fall there^are many clusters of yellow-red seed 

 pods. Each spr!rig these plants are cut back to about 

 eighteen inches, thus a heavy mass of foliage of uniform 

 height is secured each year. Figure 14 shows the north 

 end of the pebble dash hoJse nearly covered with English 

 ivy. This ivy does not succeed in any other exposure. In 

 the spring it forms many clusters of pale greenish waxy 

 flowers. The single shrub near the house is the holly 

 leaved barberry, Berberis ncubertii. This does not blossom 

 but has large, dark green, spiny leaves which become 

 bronzed in early winter and make good holiday decorating 

 material. The leaves drop in midwinter. Next to the 



house but not shown in this picture is a bed of native 

 azalea (see Fig. 16). 



The native mountain laurel and the rest of the wild 

 group, shown in the center background of Figure 14, 

 get the morning sun, but not much afternoon sun. They 

 are as contented and happy here as though they were still 

 in the wild woods, see also in Figure 15. In 1909 and 

 1910 these plants were dug with good balls of earth and 

 transplanted here in full bloom and never withered or 

 regretted it. By digging in full bloom the plants with 

 pinkest flowers may be chosen. When transplanted they 

 should be mulched with vegetable matter and be watered 

 often for a few weeks. 



The native azaleas, or honeysuckle, shown in Figure 

 16, were also dug in full bloom and transplanted here 

 in 1909 and 1910 with the same care given the mountain 

 laurel in Figure 15. The plants with richest blooms 

 were selected and they find a charming background for 

 their profusion of lovely bloom in the English ivy on the 

 foundation wall. 



THE USE OF WOOD IN GAMES AND SPORTS 



{Continued From Page 438.) 



leather. Snow shoes of this kind are not always classed 

 as sporting outfits. They are strictly for business during 

 the deep snows and the severe winters of the far north- 

 ern regions. Trappers, hunters, and travelers once 

 habitually wore such in winter and moccasins in summer. 

 Custom has changed somewhat now, in regions which 

 have become thickly settled; and the snow shoe and 

 the ski have taken their place among implements of sport. 

 The snow shoe, with its broad, latticed, rawhide bot- 

 tom, is serviceable in walking over soft snow. The 

 wearer does not expect to develop much speed. The 

 sport consists in walking on snow so soft that, without 

 such appendages, he would sink into it. Northern hunt- 

 ers in former times made their own snow shoes with 

 hatchet and knife, and if leather thongs were not at 

 hand, the lattice soles could be woven of basswood bark 

 which can be stripped in winter as well as in summer. 

 Bark of several other trees will serve also. Expert 



woodsmen knew the art of heating the bark to make it 

 peel in winter and to divide into strands of conven- 

 ient size for braiding into soles for the snow shoes. 



The hunter could split his ski material with hatchet 

 and wedges; but the man who used snow shoes for busi- 

 ness, nearly always preferred the broad, short pattern, 

 with braided whang bottoms. They were more reliable 

 than the long skis. 



As articles of sport, the ski and the snow shoe are 

 popular. The sportsman does not make them himself 

 as the pioneer hunter did. He buys the factory-made 

 product. The latticed snow shoe resembles in a general 

 way a large tennis racket with the handle missing. The 

 body of the shoe is two or three feet long and twelve 

 inches or more wide at the broadest part. The rim is of 

 ash, hickory, or elm. The ski is made of beech, birch, 

 maple, ash, or spruce. The latter wood is lighter but not 

 so strong as the others. 



TWO LANDMARKS 



'T'WO of the three giant white pines at the head of 

 ' President's Avenue have at last bowed their heads. 

 Familiar to many generations of Cornellians, these two 

 landmarks, which towered over their neighbors, the beau- 

 tiful elms planted by the Class of '72, have outlived their 

 usefulness and are now stovewood. One of the laborers 

 employed by the University a genial, red-faced old 

 Irishman stopped the saw which was cutting into the 

 heart of one of these old monarchs, and straightened up 

 to say: 



"Yis, sor, thirty-three years ago, when I furst cum 

 to Ithaca and Mr. White was president and lived in that 

 very house you see there," pointing over his shoulder to 

 the president's house overlooking campus and valley 

 from its eminence at the head of the avenue, "when I 

 furst cum here, these trees was as big as they are right 

 now, and there's others will tell you the same. Nobody 



AT CORNELL PASS 



knows how long they've been a-standin' here. 



"And a shame it is to cut 'em down, sor, but you 

 know they was shadin' the elms and the poor divils was 

 dead anyway. Shure, and maybe they're afhter needin' 

 a rest, too, watchin' over Cornell these long years the 

 same as President White himself. Ah, there was a 

 grand ould man, and don't you f ergit it, sor !" 



So these two monarchs of the forests that covered the 

 hills above Cayuga long before Mr. Cornell was born, 

 have passed to their rest. They have seen a great Uni- 

 versity spring up and grow at their very feet ; many 

 problems have been solved and many hearts made lighter 

 under the shade of their branches. Possibly these tall 

 and stately trees, standing straight and true against the 

 sky at the top of the hill, helped to influence the founder 

 to choose this spot for the beginning of Cornell. {Cornell 

 Alumni News.) 



