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THB GREENING PICTORIAL 



SYSTEM OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



GREENING COURSE 

 OF STUDY IN 

 FORESTRY 



But happily for us there is 

 ah-eady a well-estabhshed cur- 

 rent, or perhaps I should say an 

 undercurrent, of popular senti- 

 ment demanding the conservation of our natural resources 

 and the reforestation of cut-away lands; and this is shown 

 by the establishment of forestry courses in our agricuUural 

 colleges and the number of bright young men who enter 

 upon said courses of study. As a further illustration I 

 cite the case of twelve agricultural students who attended 

 the field lectures given by myself at the Greening Nurseries, 

 during the season of 1910, nine of whom expressed a desire 

 to specialize in Forestry. 



The mistakes of the past cannot be avoided. The mis- 

 takes of the present should be corrected, and there must be 

 no mistakes in the future. 



We must not only cease to destroy, we must begin 

 to produce. 



We must not only cease to waste, we must clieck 

 natural waste. 



Last winter, during my hunt- 

 ing trip in the South, I met 

 a number of lumbermen whose 

 lands were swept by the equinoc- 

 tial storms, leaving many trees uprooted and broken. 

 These are pounced upon by certain beetles that live on 

 fallen timber and completely ruin it in about two years. 

 The operators, being unable to harvest this fallen timber 

 before its destruction by insects, suffer a considerable loss, 

 and many of them become discouraged. What individual 

 effort cannot do, the nation must do, or provide the means 

 for doing. Why not limit the area of individual holdings, 

 thus increasing the number of lumber operators, and make 

 it possible for each man to proper!}- husband his own 

 resources ? 



LOSSES FROM 

 STORMS 



RESERVATION AND 

 REFORESTATION 



Again I call attention to 

 the prairie states which occupy 

 relatively a large portion of our 

 territory, and which are fast 

 filling u]) w ilh a jjrosperous agricultural population. The 

 soil of these prairie states is so rich and abundantly pro- 

 ductive of cereal and orchard crops that they will con- 

 tinue lo attract the ])etter class of farmers, and the land 

 will rapidly increase in value. Farms that the government sold for 

 $1.25 an acre a few years ago are now worth $100 to $200 an acre. 

 Would it not have been a sensil>k' policv to reserve some of these 

 lands for forestry puri)oses? And in the ])resent condition of 



THE CREATION OF AN ARTIFICIAL FOREST 



The creation of forests was a dream of the oriental imagination. The Arabian 

 Nights abound with tales of forests formed by magic — by the waving wand of 

 some love-lorn knight. They were peopled with nymphs and fairies and in the new- 

 made sylvan aisles the Dryads danced. 



But the actual building of forests is an accomplishment of the modern world, 

 and the things that are being done to-day, by the light of silvicultural science, sur- 

 pass in scenic splendor the wildest invention of Scheherazade's fertile brain. Some 

 of our great captains of industry are constructing forests of great extent, even sur- 

 passing the immense hunting preserves of old England's aristocracy. I refer 

 especially to the Rockefeller estate at Pocontico Hills, and to that of the late Mr. 

 Harriman in the Adirondacks. 



The creation of such a forest is done by means of the promiscuous planting of 

 a large variety of native trees, and to the equally promiscuous planting of a great 

 variety of shrubs a-fe an undergrowth, all blended in a natural effect. This kind of 

 planting is not intended for the purpose of obtaining timber, the object being simply 

 to produce a particular kind of sylvan scenery, which cannot be gotten in any other 

 way. In all my hunting expeditions I have made a special study of the shrubs that 

 grow in forest conditions and which w,e usually call underbrush, and I invite the 

 correspondence or consultation of anyone desiring to produce a forest of this kind. 

 A winding drive through such a forest is nature's own tonic for the nerves. 



affairs, would it not be a wise policy at least to replant our denuded 

 forest lands and provide for the ever-increasing deniantl for lumber 

 \)y the prairie states as well as by the increasing population of 

 wliat were formerly oin* luni])er-producing states. 



