A SYLVAN MEMORIAL 



By WM. R. FISHER 



THE planting of a tree, here and 

 there, to commemorate the visit 

 of a distinguished person, or to 

 mark some notable event, has 

 been a common custom for a long time. 

 Usually there is much ceremony and a 

 gathering together of a crowd of on- 

 lookers and some prominent locality is 

 selected for these formal tree plantings 

 the college campiis, the city park, or 

 the site of historic doings, -memorable 

 achievements of the peaceful arts, or 

 the warroir's reminder " of old, unhappy, 

 far off things, and battles long ago." 



But the planting of some thousands of 

 seedlings, with the intention of making 

 trees, when they grow up, serve as a 

 memorial to the dead, instead of erecting 

 a monument of carved stone, is certainly 

 new and interesting to the forester. 



Mrs. Flavia Camp Canfield, widow- of 

 the late James Hulme Canfield, LL. D., 

 a former president of the Ohio State 

 University and subsequently Librarian 



of Columbia University, New York City, 

 has recently devised this novel and beau- 

 tiful tribute to her departed husband. At 

 the family homestead at Arlington, Vt., 

 twenty thousand white pine seedlings 

 have been set out, and the plantation 

 will hereafter be known as the Memorial 

 Pines. 



One may hardly say of such a monu- 

 ment what the Roman poet said of his 

 verse that it would outlive a monu- 

 ment of bronze; and yet, under watchful 

 care to exclude destructive fires, there 

 is no limit to the continuance of such a 

 woodland. 



Most people find it hard to break 

 away from the conventional way of 

 doing things. It is not likely that there 

 will be many imitators of this lady, but 

 there are some who will feel that no 

 more dignified method could be found, 

 of expressing love and respect for the 

 memory of one who has gone than this 

 sylvan monument. 



FULL TITLE UNDER THE WEEKS ACT 



The completion of the payment by 

 the United States government, acting 

 through the department of agriculture 

 and the forest service, for lands in the 

 town of Benton, New Hampshire, sold 

 by the Pike Woodlands company and 

 E. Bertram Pike, places the Federal 

 Government in full title and possession 

 of the first tract which it has acquired 

 in the White Mountains under the 

 Weeks act. 



The Moosilauke tract comprises the 

 northerly and westerly slopes of Mount 

 Moosilauke and will furnish a valuable 

 example of modern forestry practice 

 under varied conditions which are typi- 

 cal of large areas in our mountain region. 



It is understood that the Forest 

 Service will proceed at once to construct 

 necessary trails and fire stations in 

 order that the property may be pro- 

 tected from injury by fire and at the 

 same time may be accessible to the 

 public for all reasonable uses. The 

 mature timber on the tract will prob- 



ably be sold for commercial uses, the 

 cutting being conducted in such man- 

 ner as to benefit rather than to injure 

 the remaining growth. 



The tract is quite accessible to the 

 public, being only a short distance from 

 the Glencliff station on the White 

 Mountain division. It adjoins the 

 property owned by the state in con- 

 nection with the sanitarium at Glen- 

 cliff. Mr. Pike owns or controls large 

 areas in the same vicinity which he is 

 planning to improve on forestry lines, 

 including the extensive tract owned by 

 the Lake Tarleton club in the town of 

 Piermont which overlooks the Moosi- 

 lauke reservation. 



Allen Hollis, Esq., of Concord, who 

 represented Mr. Pike and the Pike 

 Woodlands company in the proceed- 

 ings for condemnation, is receiving con- 

 gratulations in being instrumental in 

 bringing into New Hampshire the first 

 actual payment on account of a govern- 

 ment purchase. 



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