FOREST EDUCATION IN MARYLAND 



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URING the past summer and 

 fall the Maryland State Board 

 of Forestry has carried on 

 throughout Maryland an edu- 

 cational campaign in the interest of 

 good forestry and better forest manage- 

 ment. Part of this work has consisted 

 of lectures and illustrated talks, by the 

 State Forester and his Assistant, which 

 have been given before local granges, 

 schools and clubs. The farmers, who 

 are the largest holders of woodland in 

 Maryland, as elsewhere in the East, 

 have been reached by a series of exhibits 

 and demonstrations at the leading 

 State and county fairs. With them the 

 State has been thoroughly covered, and 

 the value of both private and State 

 forestry brought home to the class of 

 people who own the forests. 



In November, during Maryland Week, 

 the last exhibit of the year was given in 

 the Fifth Regiment Armory at Balti- 

 more. The Board of Forestry has for 

 many years been an exhibitor at the 

 Horticultural Show held then, each year 

 featuring some one important phase of 

 its work. A year ago the exhibit was of 

 forest products, but at the show just 

 past it was the intention to give par- 

 ticular emphasis to the reforestation of 

 the State's waste lands and the im- 

 provement of her highways under the 



recently enacted law regarding road- 

 side trees. To this end beds of seedlings 

 were shown beside larger ones where the 

 work of outplanting was well repre- 

 sented with transplant trees adapted 

 to growth in the State. The stock 

 exhibited was from the State Forest 

 Nursery at College Park, where nearly 

 a quarter-million small trees have been 

 growing since its establishment less 

 than a year ago. Along these beds of 

 trees ran a roadway which might serve 

 as a model for highways in the State. 

 The road was carefully constructed and 

 laid out, but it was to the trees which 

 lined it in two long rows that attention 

 was especially directed. The roadside 

 trees, like the road, were on a some- 

 what reduced scale, but the same pro- 

 portion was observed throughout. The 

 trees themselves were well trimmed and 

 symmetrical, giving emphasis to work 

 under the new Roadside Tree Law. 

 Tree Wardens from the State Forester's 

 Office have supervised the trimming 

 of 10,000 trees since July 15, 1914. 

 This takes no account of the work done 

 in Baltimore City under a separate 

 Department. The new law has worked 

 out well, and has already accomplished 

 much in the way of improving publicly 

 owned trees and making the highways 

 of Marvland more attractive. 



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