. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Planning for Slnct Trees n tell the minilier ami species of trees in the city, and you have the information for any future j>lanti!i<j or even for starting a muni- cipal nursery. Boy Scouts or hifjh school lioys can be interested in the outside work; they save a lot of steps in pacing, and you will he surprised to see how <|uickly a hun dred miles of streets will he listed. 3. Get a woman's club to solicit each house on one or two of the newer and better streets for the wholesale cost of planting, you to take cha
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Planning for Slnct Trees n tell the minilier ami species of trees in the city, and you have the information for any future j>lanti!i<j or even for starting a muni- cipal nursery. Boy Scouts or hifjh school lioys can be interested in the outside work; they save a lot of steps in pacing, and you will he surprised to see how <|uickly a hun dred miles of streets will he listed. 3. Get a woman's club to solicit each house on one or two of the newer and better streets for the wholesale cost of planting, you to take charge of the planting. Any mirsery will quote you better prices than if they had to deal with each jiroperty owner. In any case planting is the keynote of your work. It means most in after results; it is inexpensive as compared with remov- ing old trees; it attracts public interest. Climate varies so in different sections of er that street trees have not the protection of tho^e in a grove, and some provsion must be made for watering and mulching. I favor strongly the top mulch of .strawy material in all planting, and wonder at not seeing it used instead of the dust midch in prairie tree planting, where straw is so plentiful, and time is so scarce in the cultivating sea- son. Some of the mistakes liable to be made are too close spacing, trying to plant too large trees, and using fast growing .species at the expense of quality. As to spacing forty feet apart will allow alternate light and shade on the street, and it is not prac- ticable to plant closer with the idea of tak- ing out half the trees later on. In regard to size, trees two in. will be the most satisfactory in the Mr. George Bury, Newly Appointed Vice- President of the Canadian Pacific Railway. With the beginning of ; Mr. George Bury, formerly N'ice-President and General Manager of Western Lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway, with headquarters at Win- nipeg, became Vice-President of the system with headq
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