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is going to be created for supplies of timber in the distant 
future. In this region, moreover, certain timber trees grow 
fast, and surprising financial results have been obtained a 
few miles off at Gairletter, on Loch Long. In 1912 a 
plantation here of Douglas fir and Thuya, 35 years old, was 
blown down (9). The timber amounted in volume to 
7430 cubic feet per acre, and was sold in the very 
accessible market of Glasgow for £130 per acre. 
NOTES 
1. Collected Papers by James Thomson, 464-472 (1912). 
2. The organised Playground Movement in the United States is about 30 
years old. In 1912, 332 cities were conducting organised play under qualified 
play leaders, and 257 cities and towns were spending $3,500,000 a year on 
the maintenance of playgrounds. In all those cities, places are set apart 
where children can play under supervision, not mere school yards. The play 
leaders are as a rule better paid than the school teachers, and constitute a 
new and independent profession. At Chicago a Training School for play- 
ground workers, at which 17 subjects are taught, was opened in 1911. A 
Professor of Play was appointed at Pittsburgh University in 1910. The 
effects of the movement on the moral and physical health of the population 
are manifold and far-reaching. Tuberculosis is prevented by the pulling 
down of tenement houses for the erection of children’s playgrounds in the 
congested areas. The effect of the organised play in increasing school 
discipline and efficiency is well marked. There is a notable decrease in 
school truancy and juvenile delinquency. The school curriculum has become 
widened and carried a little into the open air. Children’s gardens and 
libraries founded by the playground associations have become school gardens 
and libraries. See Board of Education, Educational Pamphlet, No, 27 (1913): 
“The Playground Movement in America and its Relation to Public 
Education” ; and City of Birmingham Parks Department, Reports on 
Organised Games, 1912, 1913, and 1914. 
3. I quote here largely from papers furnished by the Metropolitan 
Public Gardens Association, including their Annual Reports, an article in 
Journ. Sanitary Inst. xxiv. 604 (1903), and a paper read at Bradford in 
1903. The history of the movement is described fully by Mr. Basil 
Holmes in a paper entitled ‘‘Open Spaces, Gardens, and Recreation 
Grounds,” read before the Town Planning Conference, convened in London 
by the Royal Institute of British Architects in October 1910, 
4. See Bazalgette, in Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers, vol. 76, p. 2 (1884). 
5. Though parks and gardens are a primary necessity for large towns, 
yet their good influence is felt in small towns as well. See G. T. Hunt, 
Borough Surveyor of Dorchester, ‘‘On the Provision and Laying out of 
Pleasure Grounds in Small Towns,” in Jowrn. Sanitary Inst. xxi. p. 113 
(1900). 
6. Sir Gilbert Parker stated in 1910 that there is only one acre of open 
space to 15,000 people in Shoreditch, and one acre to 14,000 people in 
Southwark. 
