INTRODUCTION 



While a great deal more might be done by judicious husbandry in utilising 

 waste lands and making desolate places beautiful, affording work" for those 

 willing to till the soil, and generally encouraging a love for the country, 

 fortunately the tendency seems to be in the right direction. 



THE ADVENT OF THE GARDEN CITY 



The Garden City, for instance, has come to stay. It is the beginning of 

 a new era. It is as yet neither Paradise nor Utopia, but it is a start on 

 the road to better housing, healthier conditions for the people, more social 

 intercourse, a love for the country, gardening, outdoor recreation, pursuits, 

 and pleasures. " And what," you may ask, " has the advent of Garden 

 Cities to do with trees?" The answer is obvious, for, if a Garden City 

 is to be worthy of the name, trees and shrubs must of necessity play 

 an important part in its upbuilding, its charm, its attractions, and its 

 welfare. 



In more than one Garden City of our acquaintance we have been pleased 

 to observe that tree planting is one of the chief and essential features that 

 attract attention. Not long since we paid an interesting visit to a certain 

 locality — now a Garden City — where there previously existed a six square 

 mile area of pastoral country, sparsely wooded for the most part, excepting 

 for two or three choice spots, prominent among them being a delightful 

 common of seventy-eight acres, covered with Privet, Buckthorn, Blackthorn, 

 Whitethorn, Elder, Wild Rose, and other trees, shrubs, and herbaceous 

 plants. Now as the city develops the streets are being planted with many 

 kinds of trees ; the common and its wild beauty is being rigorously pre- 

 served ; the fostering of a natural inclination for gardening, hedgerows, trees, 

 everything that is not an eyesore, is encouraged. It is, so far as has been 

 possible in the short time at command, a Garden City in the truest sense 

 of the word, and although we of to-day may not appreciate it as we should 

 do, nor live to see its complete accomplishment, there are generations as 



yet unborn who will, we venture to predict, be thankful a thousand times 



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