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TOWN AND CITY STREET TREES 



Oaks are considered by the United States 

 Department of Agriculture to be the best 

 trees for street planting. It is probable 

 that oaks have not been more widely plant- 

 ed because of the prevalent belief that 

 they are slow growers, and because in the 

 North they are rather difficult to transplant. 

 A white oak, however, which is one of the 

 slow-growing varieties, will reach the same 

 height as a sugar maple in the same period 

 of time, and maples have been used much 

 more widely than oaks for sWeet ornamen- 

 tation, despite many unsatisfactory cnar- 

 acteristics. 



Farmers' Bulletin, No. 1208, Trees for 

 Town and City Streets, by F. L. Mulford, 

 horticulturist, issued by the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, describes in 

 detail the various oaks for street use in dif- 

 ferent regions, as well as about 100 other 

 trees or varieties. Elms are given second 

 place in desirability for city streets and 

 sycamores third. Maples are considered 

 less desirable than has been ge.nerally sup- 

 posed. Except the Lombardy poplar most 

 varieties of poplar are not recommended. 



The, bulletin, which is available upon ap- 

 plication to the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, contains a regional map of 

 the United States and indioaltes which 

 trees flourish best under the climatic con- 

 ditions of each region. 



BEAUTIES OF WHITE PIN"E 



How the white pine, at one time 

 America's premier lumber tree, combines 

 the faculty of being ornamental as well as 

 useful is demonstrated in a new United 

 States Department of Agriculture single 

 reel motion picture, "White Pine, Beauti- 

 ful and Useful." 



The new white pine film is replete with 

 picturesque woodland scenes and contains 

 much material of historical importance. 

 Many famed colonial homes, which have 

 weathered the elements for more than a 

 century, tribute to their construction, be- 

 came subjects for the camera in the filming 

 of the white pine story. Among them are 

 Longfellow's home at Cambridge ; Haw- 

 thorne's famous "House of the Seven 

 Gables," the "Witch's House" at Salem, 

 around which a chapter of American his- 

 tory is written ; the oldest wooden house 

 in America at Dedham, Massachusetts, built 

 in 1636; Christ's Church, Cambridge; the 

 beautiful Lake George region and the pines 

 of Kittery, Maine. Historic Mount Ver- 

 non and scenes about the Nation's Capitol 

 at Washington add to the educational and 

 pictorial value of the new Government 

 cinema production. A warning of the dan- 

 gers of the ever lurking blister rust, dead- 

 liest enemy of the pine, is sounded. 



The United States Department of Agri- 

 culture will lend the film to exhibitors, 

 free, for short periods, and will authorize 

 the purchase of copies at the production 

 cost of approximately $37 each. 



THE PLANTING OF TREES 

 By Albert StoU, Jr. 



The planting of a tree is an act of faith. 

 Faith embodied in a work of this kind 

 is an exemplification of a most simple and 

 genuine belief in the fertility and pro- 

 ductiveness of nature; a belief based upon 

 the inexorable example and mute evidence 

 uncovered along the by-ways and path- 

 ways of the out of doors ; that nature will 

 rear to healthy maturity any living thing 

 that finds comfort, contentment and exist- 

 ence in her domain. 



This is the same faith that laid the 

 foundation of all agricultural development 

 the world over. 



In forestry, as in no other endeavor, this 

 faith is often sorely tried. With a con- 

 stant fear of the merciless, devouring for- 

 est fire; the unrelentless eflforts of the in- 

 vading army of millions of injurious in- 

 sects; the terrific devastation of fungus 

 growth and diseases ; all arrayed against 

 the growing things of the open and faced 

 by the realization that a timber harvest 

 comes but once in a generation; the incen- 

 tive for the individual to put into practice 

 reforestation or the planting of a tree, is 

 invariably to be found at a low ebb. 



However, the planting of trees on a 

 great scale in America and in Michigan 

 particularly, is an economic necessity. 

 Trees give shelter to man and beast. They 

 protect and preserve our water supply. 

 They prevent soil erosion. They provide 

 food and clothing for millions of Ameri- 

 cans, by providing them with work. They 

 build all our homes, our ships our fac- 

 tories. They protect our crops and keep 

 fertile our lands that without their aid 

 v/ould soon become desert areas. They 

 beautify the out of doors, ever inducing 

 you and I to play in their domain. Trees 

 are the very foundation of our progress and 

 our lives; without them, the broad expanse 

 of this much cherished country of ours 

 would be a land of desolation and barrens. 



The planting of a tree is an act of faith. 

 Reforestation is the amplification of this 

 faith. May it take deeper root in the being 

 of every patriotic citizen of this State. 



ENGLISH WALNUT THRIVES IN 

 WISCONSIN 



JOHN AHLE, melon grower and resort 

 keeper of Lake Noquebay, Marinette 

 County, Wisconsin, planted an English 

 walnut, on his place in 1903. While the 

 walnut is an unknown tree in upper Wis- 

 consin, Mr. Able was satisfied it would 

 grow. His friends were skeptical, declar- 

 ing that even if it did grow he would never 

 live to pick nuts from it. As he was at 

 the time about 40 years of age, he was 

 somewhat in doubt himself. But the nut 

 germinated and a green shoot appeared 

 and thrived, and Mr. Able is now reaping 

 the reward of patience. He picked nuts 

 from the tree in 1917, just 14 years after 

 he planted the nut, and this fall he expects 

 to harvest a quantity of nuts. 



Particularly fine scpcimens of Oak, 

 Maple, Elm, Etc., for memorial plantina. 

 Trees from 15 to 30 feet are recommend- 

 ed. Each tree is recorded with the Amer- 

 ican Forestry AisociatluB to perpetuate 

 its memory. 



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