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The Shady Corner 



A SHADY corner what a problem 

 it presents! Nothing seems to 

 want to grow there, not even 

 grass. In consequence, the spot Is 

 usually left to care for itself and be- 

 comes the one unsightly place on an 

 otherwise attractive lawn. Such a 

 problem existed on the property pic- 

 tured. Then Moon's came along and 

 made up an assortment of shrubs that 

 solved the difficulty. Now a luxuriant 

 mass of foliage takes the place of the 

 sicldy, unsatisfactory plants that pre- 

 ceded. 



To help you solve the shady corner 

 problem, we offer the following "Shady 

 Corner Collection" for autumn planting: 



Viburnum Lantana (Wayfaring 

 tree), 3 to 4 ft_ 



Acanthopanax pentaphyllum, 

 4 to 5 ft.. 



Ibota Privet, S to < ft 



Viburnum dentatum (Arrowwood) 

 4 to 5 ft.- 



$ .90 

 1.10 



OalE-leaved Hydrangea, J to S ft_ 1.J5 



Two each of the above shrubs will be 

 supplied f. 0. b. our Nurseries for 

 $S.SO. Five of each for $15.00. 



Send in your order now and ask for 

 Catalogue F. Its "What to Plant and 

 Where" chapter may help you with 

 other plantine questions. 



Moons' Nurseries 



THE WM. H. MOON Ca 



MORRISVILLE PENNSYLVANIA 



which is /mitt from Trenton. NU 



THE RED SCOURGE 



"On the tentli day of July a man set 

 firei to more than a score of homes. Every 

 home was entirely consumed and there 

 was no insurance. The man went on his 

 way, if not rejoicing, at least without vis- 

 ible evidence of regret. He had no fear 

 of punishment because the homes he had 

 destroyed were not yet built ; they were 

 still in the tree trunks awaiting the magic 

 wand of industry to give them habitable 

 form. But economically these homes we,re 

 destroyed as surely as though the trees 

 had been made into lumber and the lum- 

 ber into structure;s. And this is the way 

 it happened: 



"It was the vacation season and an auto- 

 mobile carrying a party of tourists stopped 

 on a road that wound through a magnifi- 

 cent stand of Douglas fir, in Western 

 Washington. The travelers sat in raptur- 

 ous admiration of the quiet forest scejie 

 and rhapsodized over the great trees that 

 columned their majestic beauty as far as 

 the eye could se,e. One of the men of 

 the party lit a contemplative cigarette and 

 tossed the match to the side of the road. 



"Half an hour later an airplane forest 

 patrol flying high above, the mountain 

 range saw a yellowish smoke ballooning 

 over the tree tops. He moved his control 

 and turned in that direction. Upon the 

 chart in the machine before him he lo- 

 cated the fire approximately, then returned 

 quickly to a mountain fire station ten 

 miles away. * * * 



"After what seemed an interminable 

 wait, the patrol noted various gangs of 

 men at work. They were combating that 

 most terrifying, most ungovernable and 



dangerous of all rebellious elements 



the forest fire. For a day and night and 

 another day the battle waged. Grimy 

 men, black as tlie charred trunks around 

 them, worn to the last stages of exhaus- 

 tion, fought on cutting away underbrush, 

 dynamiting logs and trees, beating out the 

 slinking fringes of advancing ground fire, 

 shouting one to another above the crack- 

 ling inferno of heat and smoke, panting 

 like hunted animals around the water 

 barrels where; they slaked their thirst with 

 the luke-warm liquid, but gaining, almost 

 imperceptibly at first, yet gradually with 

 greater certainty as the weary hours drag- 

 ged on. And amid the confusion and 

 crash of falling timber the ranger and 

 foremen generalled the; battle. 



"Several days later a wide, barren scar 

 lay upon the mountainside, still smoulder- 

 ing in places where the black splinters of 

 the charred stumps pointed like accusing 

 fingers, and still sent out masses of yel- 

 lowish white smoke. The scar covered 

 hundreds of acres and it would continue 

 to smoulder and smoke for weeks, while 

 all about in the adjacent woods were fire 

 ?uards constantly vigilant to see that the 

 enemy did not creep out and strike again. 



"And far away the automobile tourists 



journeyed carefree and utterly uncon- 

 cerned. At a sawmill they stopped for a 

 few minutes to watch the logs in slow 

 procession from the pond to the band 

 saws. "What a shame,' exclaimed the man 

 with the cigarette, in a burst of senti- 

 mental revolt, "What a shame to cut down 

 those beautiful trees.' " 



FOREST FIRE FIGHTING COMPANY 



Through the effort of leading citizens, 

 foresters and fire wardens, Mt. Carmel, 

 Pennsylvania, now claims distinction for 

 having in its midst a fully organized for- 

 est fire fighting company. The first so 

 far as is known in the United States. 



The company was organized to satisfy 

 a pressing need for better forest fire pro- 

 tection in the vicinity of Mt. Carmel. 

 This being realized by the progressive 

 people of the town it only remained for 

 a leader in the person of W. W. Smith, 

 District Forest Warden of the Philadel- 

 phia and Reading Coal & Iron Company, 

 to make eflfective the desire of the com- 

 munity for improved forest conditions. 



The organization was efTected by first 

 securing contributions from individuals in 

 the locality. This done a building of the 

 bungalow type was planned and started 

 on the mountain side south of and ad- 

 jacent to Mt. Carmel. This building is 

 now complete and is 20x20 feet in size 

 with a porch on three sides. It overlooks 

 the town of Mt. Carmel and the lands of 

 the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, Madeira 

 Hill & Company, Susquehanna Collieries 

 Company and the Philadelphia & Read- 

 ing Coal & Iron Company. The cost of 

 building and improvements to date is 

 about $2,000. 



In addition to the building provided for 

 the use of members it is planned to con- 

 struct a swimming pool, tennis court and 

 trap-shooting grounds. The .primary pur- 

 pose of the company is to "organize and 

 keep in readiness an efficient corps of for- 

 est fire fighters and to further the work 

 of forest fire prevention." To this end 

 the State Forestry Department will sup- 

 ply all needed fire fighting tools, while 

 the coal companies affected will provide 

 additional equipment such as fire fighting 

 pumps, uniforms, etc. 



The actual fire fighting work will be 

 done by active members, limited to 30 in 

 number. These will be divided into three 

 crews of ten men each. 



The leadership will be vested in a Chief 

 Forest Protector and three assistant For- 

 est Protectors whose duties will be to or- 

 ganize and train for quick response to 

 and prompt suppression of all forest fires 

 in the vicinity. 



It is the belief of many that this pioneer 

 work in forest protection will grow and 

 spread from a mere local movement for 

 better forests to one that will rapidly in- 

 clude all towns in the anthracite region 

 and eventually those in wooded regions 

 throughout the state. 



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