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 been developed as a recreatiop ground. 12 



Wherever a city is naturally favored by scenes of 

 beauty at its very doors, a failure to incorporate 

 smch advantages in the civic scheme is nothing short 

 of poor business and lack of foresight. 



To those not trained to see the possibilities of 

 a landscape, many localities may appear to have little 

 attraction. But often these very places under the 

 dictates of civic art, may through a wise development 

 of whatever beginnings of scenic beauty there may be, 

 or a building up of entirely new elements in the.} com- 

 position, be entirely transformed, and thait in many 

 e ases at relatively small outlay. Due to the modern 

 achievements in reclamation engineering, it frequently 

 becomes altogether practicable for towns to use their 

 marginal land for parks and playgrounds, thtas convert- 

 int into property of high social value what would other- 

 wise have been used only for slums and undrained 

 vacant lots. As has been suggested in referring to 

 reforestation in mining and industrial regions, 

 practically no land (within the limits of the timber 

 line determined by climatic conditions) is in-capable 

 of growing some kind of trees. And when scarcity of 

 forest growth prevails, it would be desirable from 

 both the social and economic point of view to undertake 

 planting. Although measures based upon the altrusion 

 of future benefits may not appeal to the man in the 

 street, the dictates of wise statesmanship point to 



