84 DA VET'S PRIMER 



Here we have a most interesting lesson. We have 

 been telling you that children must study the for?n of 

 trees in winter, and then see if they are healthy in 

 summer, and from the most favorable types to gather 

 seed. 



Here is Mrs, R. F. Shannon, of Edgeworth, Pa., 

 with a group of children of the neighborhood, gather- 

 ing seed from a majestic "sugar maple," one of those 

 genuine "Rock Maples." The good mothers and 

 school-teachers, in all parts of the land, should take 

 hold of this work, and little plots selected in some 

 corner of the garden, where all kinds of native trees 

 should be started. Early every spring these young 

 trees should be taken up and transplanted, and given a 

 little more room, and this, also, will give a bushy, 

 strong root. We can then cut out and burn all trees 

 infested with "scale," arid have new and healthy ones 

 to take their place. 



Pennsylvania, at present, is ahead in the "forestry 

 movement"; but, if the children take hold of this 

 work, in five years things will be all astir, and 

 hundreds of millions of young trees should be ready, 

 not only for street and lawn planting, but also for new 

 forests. For hundreds of years, nearly all the old 

 countries have depended on America for lumber and 

 we have been so foolish as to waste in the most 

 shameful manner the beautiful and valuable trees 

 that should have been preserved. It is conceded that 



