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PINE TREES
A MORE AMBITIOUS CLIFF-DWELLER'S HOUSE THAT
TAKES THOUGHT FOR A FIRM FOUNDATION.
  There is always a rare opportunity for
a picturesque entrance when houses are
built upon the side of a hill. Any similar-
ity of paths is practically impossible. Of
course, mere regularity could be achieved,
but somehow the tendency is always to-
ward a more sinuous grace of line. It
would seem as though people who choose
to build their homes upon a hill were of
the type preferring naturalness. Such
people seem to have an instinct for build-
ing a house as if it were one with the hill,
taking advantage of existing boulders,
fitting the house over and around any in-
equalities in a natural manner. We have
seen little houses pushed up against a
huge boulder in such a way that the chim-
ney was practically a continuation of the
boulder, with little rocks fitted into its
crevices or cemented upon it in such a
way that the whole chimney seemed to
have been left there by some process of
nature. There is at all times a great-
er chance for individuality on a hillside
situation than on any plain or valley.
,SAVING OUR PINE TREES
HE           White Pine Blister Rust
        threatens the destruction of pines
        in the United States valued at
        $26o,ooo,ooo. The American For-
 estry Association is fighting the spread of
 this disease.
 Declaring that white pines valued at
 $261,ooo,ooo are threatened with destruc-
 tion by the white pine blister rust, the
 American Forestry Association, of this
 city, today sent a warning broadcast
 throughout the United States and Canada
 urging that every precaution be taken to
 prevent the spread of the disease, which
 has already found a secure foothold in
 New England and other eastern states,
 and in Canada.
   The disease is already progressing in
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota and in the provinces of
Ontario and Quebec in Canada.
   New York and Wisconsin have estab-
lished a rigid quarantine, and various
state agricultural boards have urged that
no infected white pines, or currant and
gooseberry bushes be shipped; that in-
fected bushes and infected pines be de-
stroyed, and in some cases that there shall
be no shipment from state to state of
white pine seedlings, gooseberry or cur-
rant bushes whether they are known to be
infected or not. There is no known cure
for the disease. It kills the white pines
infected and it spreads steadily. The
spores or seeds of the disease are blown
from diseased pines to currant and goose-
berry bushes. They germinate on the
leaves of these bushes. These leaves
then produce millions of spores or seeds
of the disease which are carried by the
winds from the bushes to the pines, and
trees are infected, become diseased and
die.
  The white pines in New England are
worth $75,000,000; in the Lake States,
$96,ooo0ooo; in the Western States, $6o,-
ooo,ooo, and in the National Forests,
$30,000,000, or a total of $261,ooo,ooo.
  The American Forestry Association
urges people in all the sections where the
disease has been discovered to destroy
currant and gooseberry bushes, diseased
pines and those exposed to infection. This
will help to stop the spread of the disease.
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