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OUR VANISHING FORESTS 



the war, for modern methods have introduced nota- 

 ble improvements, but something was lacking. 

 Where were the little clumps of woodland, the 

 orchards, and the welcome shadows before the door- 

 yard? They were gone, and all that great region 



Can anyone say that we do not love and care for trees when we choose 

 them as memorials to those who fell honorably for their country? 



which had once carried some subtle old world appeal 

 now lay staring, for all the world like some mush- 

 room city of the western plains. 



Even when America was still a vast unbounded 

 forest from the Atlantic to the prairies, there were 



