. American forestry. Forests and forestry. 148 AMERICAN FORESTRY ing his endeavor, Mr. Mann says: "An inborn love for plant life, especially in its highest forms, shrubbery and trees, induced me to attempt to make a collec- tion of native timber and ornamental trees. Like many another 'small farmer.' I could not afford to buy them at fancy prices, so 1 thought out a plan of procuring the seeds and planting them. Such seeds as I had I could chanofe with other tree fanciers for some sort that I wanted from other ]:)arts of the country, and so not merely supply my own wants but grow enougli
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. 148 AMERICAN FORESTRY ing his endeavor, Mr. Mann says: "An inborn love for plant life, especially in its highest forms, shrubbery and trees, induced me to attempt to make a collec- tion of native timber and ornamental trees. Like many another 'small farmer.' I could not afford to buy them at fancy prices, so 1 thought out a plan of procuring the seeds and planting them. Such seeds as I had I could chanofe with other tree fanciers for some sort that I wanted from other ]:)arts of the country, and so not merely supply my own wants but grow enougli to spare to any one who should care to adorn school grounds, roadsides, and home grounds. "I hoped and believed that the surest way to draw the attention of the peo- l)le to this most useful branch of nature study would be by planting trees that would show by comparison and contrast the marvelously rich and varied assort- ment of our beautiful indigenous trees which have never yet been fully ap- preciated, but have always been wasted and destroyed. I wanted to make some attempt, however small, to save some of the great quantities of forest-tree seeds that annually go to waste un- noticed throughout the land, which, for climatic as well as for economic rea- sons should be saved and planted to provide the millions of seedling trees needed to reforest the lean, bare, rocky and untillable hillsides and mountains of Pennsylvania and other states. For the great work of the national and the state forest service must be sup- plemented by the individual efforts of every public-spirited landholder. "I would especially like to get the teachers and pupils of the public schools interested in this cause—to help them all to admire, study, protect, love and to some extent propagate our most useful and beautiful trees in connec- tion with the school-garden movement, beginning by collecting and planting such seeds as they could find at home and on the way to school. "The underly
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