GARDEN AND FOREST, in view of the growing taste for rural life, and of the multiplication of country residences in all parts of the United States, especially in the vicinity of the cities and of the larger towns, will make a special feature of discussing the planning and planting of private gardens and grounds, small and large, and will endeavor to assist all who desire to make their home surroundings attractive and artistic. It will be a medium of instruction for all persons interested in preserving and developing the beauty of natural scenery. It will co-operate with Village Improvement Societies and every other organized effort to secure the proper ordering and maintenance of parks and squares, cemeteries, railroad stations, school grounds and roadsides. It will treat of Landscape Gardening in all its phases; reviewing its history and discussing its connection with architecture.
GARDEN AND FOREST will give special attention to scientific and practical Forestry in their various departments, including Forest Conservation and economic Tree Planting, and to all the important questions which grow out of the intimate relation of the forests of the country to its climate, soil, water supply and material development.
Original information on all these subjects will be furnished by numerous American and foreign correspondents.
Among those who have promised contributions to GARDEN AND FOREST are:
Mr. Sereno Watson, Curator of the Herbarium, Harvard College.
Prof. Geo. L. Goodale, Harvard College.
“ Wolcott Gibbs, “
“ Wm. H. Brewer, Yale College.
“ D. G. Eaton, “
“ Wm. J. Beal, Agricultural College of Michigan.