. American forestry. Forests and forestry. FORESTRY ON THE COUNTRY ESTATE. A LAKE TWO FEET DEEP IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS A LAKE TWENTY FEET DEEP. uplands throughout the woodlot. As a rule Nature provides these, as it were, breathing spaces, here and there in the forest, herself, fills them with wire grass and wild roses, golden rod and iron weed, and gives her bushes— sumacs, viburnums, thorns—a chance t > spread out. Catbirds and thrashers and chewinks love these places, and nest in the low bushes. Flickers come here for worms and weed seeds, and the whole glade is surrounded by beady-eyed fly-
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. FORESTRY ON THE COUNTRY ESTATE. A LAKE TWO FEET DEEP IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS A LAKE TWENTY FEET DEEP. uplands throughout the woodlot. As a rule Nature provides these, as it were, breathing spaces, here and there in the forest, herself, fills them with wire grass and wild roses, golden rod and iron weed, and gives her bushes— sumacs, viburnums, thorns—a chance t > spread out. Catbirds and thrashers and chewinks love these places, and nest in the low bushes. Flickers come here for worms and weed seeds, and the whole glade is surrounded by beady-eyed fly- catchers on the lookout for insects. The forest meadow is an amphitheater for sunloving trees. Around it gather the scarlet oaks, sweet gums, liriodendrons, blackberries—all of them one vast color scheme in the fall. Use the axe to favor them, for you will find the shade-endur- ing trees crowding in also; take out the red oak aufl leave the scarlet—what is two dollars' worth of lumber compared to fifty autumns of gorgeous scarlets! Take out that scraggly elm and favor the sweet gum, you need his red, yellow and purple stars in the autumn, and you need his button balls in to the end that a colony of goldfinches may be attracted thither. And vou are likelv to find a white ash growing somewhere around this meadow. If not, plant one, for she is the undisputed queen of the forest. No tree excels it in beauty of form, foliage or autumn coloration. It wants plenty of sunlight and rich soil, and is a gross feeder, being known to foresters as the "wolf of the ; Put in here also the American linden or basswood for its fragrant bee flowers, and leave a clump of persimmons in directing the activities of the axe, or else plant them in if you have none. You have also to provide for winter coloration. All the trees above men- tioned will be bare and gray in the win- ter, but you can paint in rich sap-greens with bushy sunloving pitch pines, points of green,
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