OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE WISCONSIN STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
Volume VIII Madison, Wisconsin, November, 1917. Number 3 
Vandals and Vandalism. 
We hear a great deal about Huns 
these days but not so much about 
Vandals altho we have in our midst 
plenty of the latter. Not neces- 
sarily descendants of the real tribe 
of Vandals but those falling within 
the definition, “one who wilfully 
destroys or mars a work of art or 
literature or wantonly mars any- 
thing beautiful.” Of these we 
have many. Most of them own au- 
tomobiles. They drive miles into 
the country where they are not 
readily identified, raid orchards 
and gardens, dig wild flowers and 
even invade door yards. The fol- 
lowing from a Milwaukee paper 
shows a mild form of vandalism. 
“The popularity of the so-called 
“bittersweet” berry has proven so 
great this year that the woods and 
fields within a radius of twenty 
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This is not, unfortunately, a Wis- 
consin tree; we are too young yet to 
have such majestic roadside trees, 
hut such may be ours in time. This 
‘Connecticut Elm is probably two- 
hundred years old. If we plant care- 
fully, prune wisely and protect from 
enemies our roadside elms, we may 
leave to coming generations such a 
heritage as this. Some of us will 
not leave much else. Let us plant 
and care for a tree. 
