THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



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Photo by W. N. Clute 

 WHITE OAKS AND SPRING BEAUTIES IN THE JOLIET AREA 



plants, and perhaps collections of mosses and grasses, into the 

 Higinbotham Arboretum, something more in the experimental 

 and exotic lines, for here too, is an abundance of water ana 

 all sorts and conditions of soil. Here too is our prehistoric 

 ruin, a fort unknown to history. The golf course is a secret 

 but alive. 



Now for the boulevard into Cook County. We are ever 

 pleased with the bird and bug sort of citizens who come ram- 

 bling into our woods, thus this sketch of our belongings and 

 hopefulness. They are an interesting and an interested peo- 

 ple. In our day dreams, always tilled with pleasant mem- 

 ories, we see the woods and a straggling multitude with lunch- 

 eons. At the Cherry Hill entrance to the Pilcher Arboretum 

 the Rock Island railway has a milk station. Perhaps the 

 "Cherry" name will be changed and more trains scheduled 

 for stopping. 



As a bird preserve these woods are somewhat noted. A 

 grove of fifteen hundred sugar maples, as a canopy, covers one 

 flat completely. Giant trees, dense shrubbery, hills, ponds, 

 running streams and a little prairie are attractive to all tastes 

 in birdland. A covey of Woodcock, two of Quail and seventy- 

 fiva wild Mallard were included in our crop of 1922. The 

 rabbits, however, are altogether too numerous for the welfare 

 of young trees, and the annual drive is the program, with a 

 hundred or more "bunnies" for the orphans and hospital un- 

 fortunates. 



I am not an authority in the bird line, but from a list made 

 by Messrs. Swarth, Dewey, Meenke and Skeels for the Field 



