. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 1334 Canadian Forestry Journal, October, 1917. A corner of the British Columbia Provincial Tree Nursery. The Schoolground's Need For Trees Giant Buildings and Barren Surroundings the Rule. How British Columbia is Helping the Children. In common with the lack of in- terest in shade trees on the part of most municipal councils, one en- counters throughout the Dominion an equal lack of interest on the part of school boards and departments of education in the encouragement of tree planting about school grounds. This, of cours
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 1334 Canadian Forestry Journal, October, 1917. A corner of the British Columbia Provincial Tree Nursery. The Schoolground's Need For Trees Giant Buildings and Barren Surroundings the Rule. How British Columbia is Helping the Children. In common with the lack of in- terest in shade trees on the part of most municipal councils, one en- counters throughout the Dominion an equal lack of interest on the part of school boards and departments of education in the encouragement of tree planting about school grounds. This, of course, is an invitation to propagandist work which would well repay the effort. Within the know- ledge of most readers of the Can- adian Forestry Journal are beautiful school buildings, erected with every regard for internal completeness, yet displaying in the school grounds the barren ugliness of a sand dune. Nearly all schools are surrounded by plenty of ground, capable of growing beauti- ful trees at trifling cost, yet there would seem a remarkable lack of initiative in leaving such grounds for ten and twenty years without sign of a tree. British Columbia has been con- ducting tree planting work on school grounds in such a way as to com- mend itself to other provinces. The following article by J. W. Gibson, , Director of Elementary Agri- cultural Education at Victoria, will be found instructive: "In 1914 the Department of Edu- cation for British Columbia adopted a policy whereby school boards wish- ing to undertake a scheme of school grounds improvment would receive financial assistance as well as free advice and a supply of ornamental trees and shrubs. For several years the Provincial Government had been supplying ornamentals for the beauti- fying of its own public grounds in various parts of the province, and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of t
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