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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



September 



is worthy of consideration, and that 

 is How shall we reinforce and 

 maintain at its highest efficiency the 

 productive power of the soil? Farm- 

 ing is fast becoming a science and 

 the most successful farmer is the 

 one who understands the chemistry 



of the soil and the products for 

 which it is best suited. We are 

 making marvelous progress in every 

 department of our domestic ecen- 

 omy and nowhere is our advance- 

 ment more marked than in the great 

 field of agriculture." 



FORESTRY AND LANDSCAPE 



ARCHITECTURE 



BY 



SAMUEL CABOT, Jr. 



"~FHE interdependence of forestry 

 * and irrigation, and forestry and 

 lumbering have been much discussed, 

 but few people seem to realize the im- 

 portant bearing which forestry and 

 landscape architecture have on each 

 other. It is true that many ignorant 

 t)f the real situation in this country, 

 have advocated the protection of our 

 forests for purely aesthetic and senti- 

 mental reasons. The practical forester 

 on the other hand, disgusted perhaps 

 by the outcry of these individuals, has 

 _gone somewhat to the other extreme 

 and has tended to make his aim the 

 most efficient production of timber 

 rather than the most "wise use of 

 forests." 



Woodland is the most important 

 feature in natural scenery capable of 

 human control and is therefore the 

 most useful material the landscape 

 architect has to work with in informal 

 landscape design. Woodland again 

 is obviously the means, the aim, and 

 the end of forestry. It would be, then, 

 extraordinary if two professions work- 

 ing largely in the same material, 

 should not each cover some part of 

 the province of the other, that is, if 

 forestry (i. e., "The wise use of for- 

 ests") would not be "wise" in em- 

 ploying landscape architecture, and 

 vice versa. 



COMMERCIAL VALUE OF ATTRACTIVE 

 LANDSCAPE. 



In the Eastern part of our country 

 real estate is high and forest land di- 

 vided up largely among small owners. 

 There is also much demand for beauti- 

 ful sites for spring, summer, and au- 

 tumn residences. These, however, 

 only anticipate conditions that will be 

 true eventually in other parts of the 

 country. People are constantly buying 

 land for residences, farms and wood- 

 lots at many times their value as crop 

 or timber producers. Here is where 

 the farseeing forester should do what 

 he can to enhance the beauty of the 

 land in his charge and raise its value 

 as a house site. Is there a beautiful 

 view from the place? Do not let it 

 be choked with trees, b ..t cut a vista, 

 that the possible purchaser may realize 

 it. Is there -an attractive situation for 

 a house backed by an imposing pine 

 grove? Then leave the grove; it is 

 only worth $8 a thousand at the mill, 

 and some millionaire may feel that he 

 cannot live without it. There are many 

 more possibilities of this kind. I know 

 of several instances where well-placed 

 pine groves and, in one case, a single 

 tree, have determined building sites. 

 Many times a clump of stately trees, 

 conspicuously placed, covering, per- 



