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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



v. He made us love the mountains, the glaciers 



and the forests. 



It might be suggested that these men were not land- 

 scape architects. It may be answered simply that the 

 landscape architects ought to do that sort of thing also 

 and do it better than anybody else. Any one who is at 

 all acquainted with Mr. Jens Jensen, for instance, living 

 and active landscape architect, president of his own 



AUTO ROAD IN THE COLORADO NATIONAL FOREST 



Traffic lines are either o developed as to tell the story of the country 

 or they are monotonous. The aim of the landscape architect is to 

 have a traffic line function not only as a line of travel, but tell a 

 story in a pleasing way at the same time. 



society of "Friends of Our Native Landscape," knows 

 him as pre-eminently an interpreter. Moreover his inter- 

 pretation is different, entirely characteristic, quite as in- 

 dividual as Stokowski's interpretation of Brahms. It 

 may easily be described as a poetic mystical and symbolic 

 interpretation. 



Now these are large words in the field of landscape 

 art, and I have not time now to explain or justify them. 

 I only wish to point out that high, spiritual interpretations 

 of the landscape are not so far away as we might think 

 at first mention. 



[Mr. IVaugh is an authority on this subject. He has for two 

 seasons studied recreation problems in the National Forests and 

 playgrounds of the West. So he spenk.i with sympathetic and 

 first-hand knowledge of this subject lacked not alone by the 

 study of theory but by the practical application of landscape 

 design to these problems of national recreation territory.] 



Most of all I want to emphasize the theorem with 

 which I started, viz., that the landscape architect has a 

 very definite work to perform in dealing with the big 

 features of the native landscape, and that this work 

 covers the whole field of conservation, technical develop- 

 ment and interpretation. 



THE SILVER BIRCH 



Back from the highway, my lady of dreams 



Murmurs a roundelay tender; 

 Silence and fragrance, and flowers and streams, 

 These do you sing of, my lady of dreams, 



Standing so stately and slender. 



Silvery white where the lone shadows brood, 



White where the starlight is streaming, 

 Silvery white through your virginal snood, 

 Silvery white through your veil and your blood 

 You, with your singing and dreaming ! 



You, with a cloak of the loveliest green 



Draping your warm whiteness over! 

 You, with the breath of the forest, I ween, 

 Mosses and briers with lilies between 



Haunts of the poet and lover! 



Back from the highway, my lady of dreams 



Murmurs a roundelay tender ; 

 Silence and fragrance, and flowers and streams 

 These do you sing of, my lady of dreams, 



Standing so white and so slender! 



Jean Blewctt, in London, Ontario, Advertiser. 



BELGIAN GOVERNMENT ACKNOWLEDGES 

 TREE SEED 



Tj 1 OLLOWING the shipment of seed sent to Belgium 

 * by the American Forestry Association for the re- 

 planting of areas devastated by the war, the Association 

 has received the following letter from the Hon. N. P. 

 Crahay, Director General of the Ministry of Agriculture 

 of Belgium: 



"I have the honor to advise you of the receipt of 

 your letter of the 23rd of December announcing the 

 shipment of the Douglas fir seed. 



"The gift of your society is particularly valuable to us 

 just at this time for the reforestation of the large area 

 of denuded lands and because of the difficulty that we are 

 experiencing in securing the seed of American species, of 

 which the green variety of Douglas fir from Oregon is of 

 the greatest interest from the point of view of Belgian 

 silviculture. 



"Please express my keen appreciation of the gift to 

 the members of the American Forestry Association, and 

 accept the assurance of my high consideration." 



