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done by private parties in planting new forests, there is grave reason to 

 doubt whether anything short of government forest planting will ever secure 

 a sufficient area of sylvan growth to insure a proper supply of timber for our 

 future needs, and for the preservation of that fertility of the land without 

 which no great civilization can be permanent. 

 We may wisely go to Russia and other nations of Europe 



TO TAKE LESSONS IN FORESTRY. 



When we learn that Russia has nearly SCO forestry stations, as Prof. Budd 

 has told us, each of these stations being under the management of an educa- 

 ted forester; that the 12,000 and over of separate artificial forests under their 

 control embrace large areas, some of them reaching 20,000 acres each ; that 

 the government is constantly planting new forests, and that, too, in regions 

 where they have but six inches of annual rainfall, we may well admire the 

 wisdom of this grand national economy, this magnificent, forecasting practi- 

 cal statesmanship. May we hope that we may, before it is too late, inaugur- 

 ate some similar system for our own country? The inventions of the time 

 may enable us to dispense with the use of timber for fences, for railway sleep- 

 ers, for house building, and for many mechanical purposes for which it is 

 now deemed essential; but no invention of man will ever provide a substitute 

 for God's own garniture of the mountains and the hills with its great conser- 

 vative power over the climates of the world and the destiny of mankind. 



And now, in closing, it becomes my painful duty to remind you that since 

 our last meeting we, as a society, and the whole horticultural world, have 

 met with 



AX IRREPARABLE LOSS. 



The greatest name has been stricken from the roll of our living members. 

 Dr. John A. Warder, of Ohio, has been called from his noble labors on earth 

 to the higher ministries of the immortal life. No man could have be^n taken 

 from us whose presence would have been so much missed in so many horti- 

 cultural bodies in this country. He was one of the founders of our Society, 

 and was always a member and an officer. One of the last communications 

 he ever made to the public was his letter to our New Orleans meeting, writ- 

 ten from his beautiful home on the bluffs of the Ohio, where he was be- 

 leagured by the great inundation. 



Dr. Warder was one of the noblest and kindliest of men. Every person 

 who ever knew \vn\ was his friend. He was forever doing some thoughtful, 

 helpful act. I c.u but allude to the many sided usefulness of his life. He 

 was interested in everj'^ work for human good. He was, perhaps, the moat 

 useful man connected with American horticulture. There was no depart- 

 ment of it in which he did not have great learning and in which he w:)s not 

 a teacher. We shall all miss that genial face, that hearty greeting, that kindly 

 voice, with its perpetual suggestions of wisdom. His loss to us can not be 

 made good. We can only say to this noble, great hearted, wise friend who 

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