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through the streets he was able to obtain 
fifteen views—the first photographs of 
public places in Japan—which brought 
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VACATION STUDIES 
HE Summer vacation gives opportuni- 
ties to those who have problems in 
planting to solve to learn by the mistakes of 
others what not to do, or if the vacation be 
spent in the wilds, nature undefiled may be 
full of pregnant suggestions about what 
to do. 
A knowledge of even a part of our native 
trees and shrubs will be of the greatest 
assistance to people who wish to improve 
their own places by planting. 
Most of the poor planting that one sees 
is poor because the trees and shrubs used 
are unsuited to their environment and a 
study of our native plants as they grow 
wild should go far to keep one from using 
unsuitable material. 
If you stay in one place for your whole 
vacation it would be an excellent thing to 
make a sort of flora of the district includ- 
ing all the interesting trees and shrubs. 
If your vacation is a rambling one then 
you could still make a list of good things 
with larger observations on their adapta- 
bility to different situations and their gen- 
eral luxuriance of growth. 
The artistic aspect of trees and shrubs 
should be studied and for those who have 
any facility in sketching there is no way 
so good, 
The soil where such plants grow should 
be noted with care and also the situation— 
whether it is wet, moist or dry ground. 
Botanies are usually deficient in their de- 
scriptions of the soil, and situation in which 
plants grow and such knowledge is of great 
value. 
The number of trees and shrubs in any 
locality is, of course, influenced by man 
and the uses to which he has put the land, 
but there are many places where almost 
primeval conditions exist and those will be 
particularly interesting to study. The 
adaptation of plants to a new environment 
or to new conditions of light or whatever 
is worth study. The Laurel (Kalmia 
angustifolia) for instance must certainly be 
a plant of the deep woods, yet it grows 
luxuriantly when the woods are cut off. 
The determining factor in the distribu- 
tion of many trees and shrubs is no doubt 
the condition necessary for the germination 
of their seeds and for their first year or 
two of life. Thus the Button Bush 
(Cephalanthus occidentalis) can be trans- 
planted to any good soil, but I have never 
found it wild except close to the water. 
In a similar way the fact that a certain 
tree or shrub grows in poor soil does not 
prove that it will not grow in rich soil, but 
only that the soil is too poor for any other 
shrubs to grow with the same luxuriance. 
The power of resistance of any plant to 
adverse conditions deserves study, and can 
be studied to advantage in successive vaca- 
tions, if they be spent in different localities. 
The Red Cedar will grow in sand or clay, 
in the crevice of a spray dashed rock on 
the hill tops, or in the valley, and some 
other plants show a similar hardihood. 
A list of plants growing along the coast 
would be of great value if it stated the 
exact soil and situation in which each plant 
was found. Does the Beach Plum grow 
only in the sand or will it grow just at the 
