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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



papers as the Brooklyn Eagle, the New York Evening 

 ll'orld and the Newark Star-Eagle. 



The Columbus Dispatch comments on the campaign 

 and calls attention to the fact that the "hickory is spotless 

 in its Americanism." The Boston Post has leanings for 

 the elm. The Philadelphia Press points to the educa- 

 tional possibilities of such a campaign as the Association 

 is conducting and adds that the yellow pine or the Doug- 

 las fir should win on strict practicality. The Rochester 

 Democrat and Chronicle, which is co-operating with the 



National Photo. 



LEARNING THE SECRETS OF BIRDLAND 



"That' where the bird comes out," said one of the youngsters who 

 visited the "bird corner" in the tree work exhibition of one of the 

 Washington schools. The exhibition closed a three months educational 

 campaign in which the children voted for a national tree. 



Association in a campaign in Rochester, says "there is 

 real merit in this movement for a national tree even if 

 it did no more than make a large number of people study 

 trees." The Public Ledger of Philadelphia points out 

 that "the American Forestry Association will give real 

 service if it will advise what not to select so as to elimi- 

 nate a foolish catalogue of unmeaning shrubbery and 

 trees." The Public Ledger then goes on to take up the 

 values of the elm, pine, hickory and several other trees. 

 Thus it will be seen that the school pupils of Wash- 

 ington through their Nature Study Department have put 

 the subject right before the editors of the country and 

 that of course means putting it before the people of the 

 country. The American Forestry Association wants to 



congratulate everybody connected with the campaign and 

 to thank every pupil who worked so hard in digging out 

 facts for "four-minute" speeches or in preparing their 

 part of the wonderful exhibits that thousands saw and 

 that hundreds of teachers from afar have examined. 



THE MEMORIAL TREE 



The living monument is Light, 



True emblem of our Liberty; 



'Tis Faith and Hope and Charity; 



'Tis ever Youth, gay, strong and bright; 



'Tis heartbeats, Death's decree despite; 



O'er Death it is a Victory; 



The life of man is called a tree 



In Holy Writ; and when its flight 



A soul has taken to its rest, 



And when a form is but a clod, 



That monumental tree is best 



Whose great limbs shower on the sod 



Its fruit, as would good deeds attest, 



To feed the little lambs of God. 



Marta Scott Conser. 



PETRIFIED BIRD'S NEST 



PETRIFIED BIRD'S EGGS HAVE BEEN FOUND ON 

 SEVERAL OCCASIONS, BUT, SO FAR AS CAN BE 

 ASCERTAINED, IT REMAINED FOR A WASHINGTON 

 STATESMAN TO FIND A BIRD'S NEST AND EGGS 

 PETRIFIED, IN THE GRAND CANYON OF THE COLO- 

 RADO, IN ARIZONA, 550 FEET FROM THE BASE OF 

 THE CANYON. IT WAS IMBEDDED IN A ROCK FOR- 

 MATION IN A SORT OF CLIFF. IT IS EVIDENTLY 

 THE NEST OF SOME BIRD ABOUT THE SIZE OF A 

 ROBIN. THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRO- 

 NOUNCES IT THE FINEST SPECIMEN OF PETRIFIED 

 FORMATION THEY HAVE EVER SEEN. THE DARKER 

 PORTION OF THE NEST WAS THE SIDE EXPOSED 

 TO THE AIR. 



