THE FORESTRY EXHIBITION 



JOHN C. DANA 

 Librarian of Newark Public Library 



This exhibition was opened on Friday evening, April 12, 1907, 

 New Jersey's Arbor Day, on the third floor of the Free Public 

 Library of Newark. It includes pictures of trees notable for 

 their size, or their age, or their beauty, or their rarity, or their 

 historic and literary associations; pictures of the leaves, flowers 

 and fruit of trees; pictures illustrating the cultivation, the trans- 

 planting, the pruning, and the protecting of trees from injuries 

 by insects and animals; pictures illustrating proper and im- 

 proper methods of lumbering and the evil effects of improper 

 methods; pictures of insect enemies of trees; pictures of streets, 

 parks and gardens adorned with trees, and of the great forests 

 of the country. 



It includes also maps showing our national forests, and others 

 showing the distribution of trees in New Jersey and in the 

 country at large. 



In cases or on the walls are shewn injurious insects with leaves, 

 bark and wood on which they have worked; wonderful re- 

 productions in wax of flowers and blossoms; leaves of many 

 kinds; a beautiful collection of freshly cut branches from 

 fifty different kinds of evergreens; hickory nuts of many kinds; 

 samples of wood in the form of boards and of veneer; material 

 illustrating every step in papermaking from the log to the 

 finished article, and many of the useful products of trees, like 

 turpentine, varnish, gums, cork, and India rubber. 



All these things and many others are so displayed as to be 

 easily examined. Though the amount of material displayed is 

 considerable and though the room in which it is shown is of 

 good size — 50 x 156 feet with 250 linear feet of wall surface and 

 thirty glass cases — the exhibition professes to be an outline sketch 

 only and is arranged rather in accordance with the material 

 secured, with the character of the room, and with an eye to its 

 attractiveness to the layman than after a logical plan. It has 

 grown to quite unexpected dimensions from the simple display 

 first planned about six months ago — of a few pictures of beautiful, 



