1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



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surroundings, than most people 

 realize. Up to a comparatively re- 

 cent period even the decoration of our 

 homes has been quite largely neglect- 

 ed in the United States, and many of 

 our people, while making large ex- 

 penditures for paintings and other 

 works of art, have allowed the very 

 important feature of landscape gar- 

 dening to go by default. There has 

 even been a notable lack of harmony 

 between architecture and landscape 

 gardening in this country. 



Happily, this condition has already 

 undergone a vast change, and the 



ation at heart, understands that a wise 

 expenditure of money for landscape 

 gardening and tree planting along his 

 line is one of the very best investments 

 for the present and the future that can 

 be made, because of the effect it has in 

 securing the co-operation and good 

 will of the public. 



To take as an illustration the Bos- 

 ton & Maine Railroad : This road trav- 

 erses some of the most interesting and 

 attractive country under the canopy. 

 It not only furnishes the best of trans- 

 portation facilities for business men, 

 wage earners, tourists and "summer 



Students digging White Pine Seedlings for transplanting. 



American people are rapidly becoming 

 better balanced in this respect. 



Our railroads, or at any rate the 

 larger systems, are taking an advanced 

 stand with reference to the question 

 of landscape effects and embellish- 

 ments. Many roads take great pride 

 in the effective planting of flowers and 

 shrubs around station buildings, as 

 well as in adopting modern architec- 

 ture for these buildings, especially 

 where they have reason to know that 

 their patrons appreciate such efforts. 



The far-sighted railroad manager 

 having the best interests of his corpor- 



boarders," but practically provides the 

 life blood of industrial northern New 

 England. 



Not only has this progressive cor- 

 poration set the pace in the matter of 

 beautifying station grounds and thus 

 helping to make communities more at- 

 tractive, but it has done much to for- 

 ward the interests of scientific forestry 

 in New England. 



It is a matter of gratification that 

 more work of a practical nature is be- 

 ing attempted toward a solution of the 

 forestry problem to-day than ever be- 

 fore. The writer is connected with 



