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memory is honored by the preservation of another school- 

 house at East Haddam, where he taught before coming to 

 New London. Several statues and other memorials also 

 honor his memory within the State and elsewhere. 



Sons Am. Rev 

 THE NATHAN HALE SCHOOLHOUSE, NEW LONDON, BEFORE REMOVAL. 



CONNECTICUT FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



E. V. Preston, President, Hartford ; Miss Mary Winslow, Secretary and 

 Treasurer, Weatogue. 



Forestry in Connecticut demands more than a passing 

 notice. Originally covered with magnificent forests of pine 

 oak, chestnut, and other species in variety, the soil is so nat- 

 ural to the growth of trees that they spring up everywhere if 

 Nature is allowed to have her own way, and hence besides 

 the memorial village and roadside trees that have been planted 

 the landscape is everywhere dotted with trees of every vari- 

 ety often rivaling in beauty the gems of a well-kept park. 

 The elm and the hickory, the maple and the oak, attain their 

 fullest development on our hillsides. The beauty thus added 



