Tree Worship That energetic—and almost mystic—body called " The Men
of the Trees " has already anticipated Christmas with a very beautiful calendar, illustrated with fine photographs of trees, British and foreign, and well- chosen verses. It costs 8s. for home purchasers, 5s. for foreign, thanks to a 3s. purchase tax, and may be had from the Society, Abbotsbury, Dorset. Besides this, a special exhibition of tree paintings is to be opened on the afternoon of October 25th at 97 Clieyne Walk, with a discourse on trees at 3 p.m. each day till October 30th. Trees are now being destroyed at such a ruthless rate that the duty of tree-planting becomes more and more insistent. One glorious grove recently destroyed has left a scene that must distress all the locality. Where some very tall oaks— said to be the highest in the country—just now flourished is a tangle of bush and briar and biennial thistle. It is a moral, if not penal, offence to make prairie of ex-woodland. Either trees should be planted or the ground cleared. The only patch of ground similarly deserted in the neighbourhood is the greater part of a field reserved by the local council for allotments! Quis custodies—?
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