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Photo by W. N. Clute 
WHITE OAKS AND SPRING BEAUTIES IN THE JOLIET AREA 
plants, and perhaps collections of mosses and grasses, into the 
Higinbotham Arboretum, something more in the experimental 
and exotic lines, for here too, is an abundance of water and 
all sorts and conditions of soil. Here too is our prehistoric 
ruin, a fort unknown to history. The golf course is a secret 
but alive. 
Now for the boulevard into Cook County. We are ever 
pleased with the bird and bug sort of citizens who come ram- 
bling into our woods, thus this sketch of our belongings and 
hopefulness. They are an interesting and an interested peo- 
ple. In our day dreams, always filled with pleasant mem- 
ories, we see the woods and a straggling multitude with lunch- 
eons. At the Cherry Hill entrance to the Pilcher Arboretum 
the Rock Island railway has a milk station. Perhaps the 
“Cherry” name will be changed and more trains scheduled 
for stopping. 
As a bird preserve these woods are somewhat noted. A 
grove of fifteen hundred sugar maples, as a canopy, covers one 
flat completely. Giant trees, dense shrubbery, hills, ponds, 
running streams and a little prairie are attractive to all tastes 
in birdland. <A covey of Woodcock, two of Quail and seventy- 
five wild Mallard were included in our crop of 1922. The 
rabbits, however, are altogether too numerous for the welfare 
of young trees, and the annual drive is the program, with a 
hundred or more “‘bunnies” for the orphans and hospital un- 
fortunates. 
I am not an authority in the bird line, but from a list made 
by Messrs. Swarth, Dewey, Meenke and Skeels for the Field 
