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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Photograph hy 



CURVES NOT OBSCURED BY TREES 



By this style of planting along Roads of Remembrance the view may be kept as 

 clear and open as it is on a stretch of straight highway. 



fast rule of treatment that would apply to all these va- 

 rious conditions which will have to be met as they occur. 



It was ascertained that on every highway there are 

 many trees already in varying stages of growth and de- 

 cline that would have to be considered, that some soils 

 would accept one kind of tree and another soil demand 

 a different kind, that telephone wires, 

 curves in the roadway, embankments 

 and swampy sections present their in- 

 dividual problems. Views of striking 

 beauty should by no means be obscured. 

 The question, too, of tree enemies dis- 

 eases and destructive insects require the 

 attention of specialists, as the subject 

 relates to the variety of localities along 

 the route. The Road of Remembrance, 

 therefore, is no simple development that 

 can be called into being by a trick of 

 magic. It will entail time and labor on 

 the part of a competent staff if it receives 

 what it deserves, the best possible treat- 

 ment. 



Practically every organized agency in 

 New York State that would be at all in- 

 terested in the project is in favor of the 

 Koad of Remembrance, if anything can 

 l)f judged by the letters received from 

 the officials of such agencies. Moreover, 

 the public through the pulpit and the 

 press has voiced its approval. This uni- 

 versal desire to .see the Roads of Remem- 

 brance become an actuality is due largely 



to the following reasons : The hrst is 

 the increased value that would accrue 

 to i)roi)erty by the planting of trees. 



Second^ There is a growing convic- 

 tion in the United States that this na- 

 tion is old enough to eradicate the traces 

 of primitive crudeness and ugliness em- 

 ])hasized in the appearance of our high- 

 ways, that it is time our country partook 

 of the same beauty and charm that is so 

 evident along the roads of Europe. We 

 make our homes attractive, but not our 

 highways. 



Third The inspiration to make of 

 this landscape improvement a memorial 

 to the soldiers who responded to the 

 call of the country in the country's hour 

 of need. This really is the moving 

 spirit. The feeling that the unstinted 

 service of our soldiers and their great 

 sacrifice cannot be recalled too fre- 

 quently and that the expression of grati- 

 tude of the people can in no other way 

 be more popularly and handsomely em- 

 bodied than by establishing these living 

 monuments to sanctify their memory 

 has found lodgment in the hearts of the people. 

 Last November representatives of the New York 

 State College of Forestry, the State Conservation Com- 

 mission and the Commissioner of Highways of the State 

 met at Albany and agreed to cooperate in the planting 

 of the Road of Remembrance and this culminated in the 



A. R. Shattiick 



Photograph by A. R. Shattuck 



MEMORIAL ROAD IN FL.^T COUNTRY 



Only a glance at the scenic effect of this Road of Remembrance is necessary to 

 show how efTective such planting can be in a flat, uninteresting farming country. 



