to the reservation and to its tree-growth and natural wild appearance. 

 In employing the landscape architects for this purpose the Board merely 

 did what it also did several years ago when extensive cutting was carried 

 on with satisfactory results in the fells as a protection against the 

 gypsy moth under the direction of the Board of Agriculture. The result- 

 ing vigor of tree and underbrush growth and the attractive appearance of 

 the sections in which this work was then done seem to make plain to the 

 eye at the present time the merit of again adopting this Gourse of pro- 

 cedure. 



This Board has never been advised to change the general natural 

 character of the reservation and has no intention of doing so. There 

 must always be some work of forestry and control of tree-growth and under- 

 brush carried on from time to time, and other special necessities will re- 

 quire definiteness of method in work if the incongruities and injurious 

 effects of merely hap-hazard work are to be avoided. Without such con-r 

 trol the reservation would become in a few years monotonous and nearly 

 impassable,- a mere warring growth of useless trees and shrubs contesting 

 for life with those worth saving. A few rare flowers and plants might 

 be preserved but many other interesting forms of plants would be de-r 

 stroyed and the entire reservation would be an easy prey to fire which, 

 in a single day, might do more damage than all the cutting which this 

 Commission is likely to do in a generation, and would become such a re- 

 fuge for wrong doers as to affect public security and comfort in its use. 

 fFor all these reasons general plans of the reservation must be made and 

 followed and this Board knows of no better way of securing plans shich 

 shall preserve the natural wild character of the reservation, with reason- 

 able regard for other necessities, than with the assistance of the land- 



