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(ee merging on the east 
| side into a wonderful 
primeval forest. The 
entire Arboretum 
tract will be land- 
scaped so as to provide 
not only ideal condi- 
tions for plant growth, 
but with it scenic ef-. 
fects that will add 
greatly to the attrac- 
tions of the project. 
During the spring of 
this year 138,000 
plants and cuttings 
were set out and dur- 
ing the summer prepa- 
rations for 100,000 
more were made. 
The main entrance 
to the Arboretum will 
be from the southeast 
by a winding road 
joining the new Chi- 
cago-Aurora highway 
via Ogden Avenue. 
Photo by Orpheus M. Schantz Skirting the sharply 
SUGAR MAPLE GROWING IN THE OPEN cefined eastern edge 
of the forest the road enters into a magnificent first growth 
of ancient and dignified trees. Oaks, maples, ash, elm, walnut, 
basswood, black cherry and many other varieties, with a lower 
growth of hawthorns, wild crab and viburnum. At one low 
spot is a colony of red elm (slippery elm) festooned with great 
lianas of poison ivy, dangerous to touch but magnificent in its 
autumn coloring; farther on a dry north slope is carpeted with 
a dense growth of hepaticas, and everywhere the many varieties 
of hawthorn are loaded with their striking red fruit. 
Passing from the eastern timbered higher ground down the 
slope to the roadway and across to the western boundary of 
the arboretum, one is impressed by the numbers of magnificent 
individual trees that have grown in entirely different manner 
from those crowded in the deep forest. One sugar maple, shapely 
and dense, stands alone among its neighbors, having a spread of 
almost 50 feet. Nearby is a wonderful elm, with a spread of 
80 feet and a trunk diameter of 314 feet. In a hollow not far 
distant is a group of tall, straight-bolled walnuts, whose trunks 
if felled would furnish timber for furniture and veneer. 
The study of plant life in its relation to our economic life 
has only begun. Although there are on many private estates 
collections of trees and other plant life of great interest, and 





