AMERICAN FORESTRY 



THE WHITK OAK— ONE VAST BAiNK OF PURPUSH COPPER IN MIU- 



OCTOBER. 



the last five years in the latitude of 

 Asbury Park, N. J. Add or subtract 

 two weeks for every 100 miles north 

 or south to get approximately the cor- 

 rect dates in your own latitude. 



With this working table and a rea- 

 sonable proficiency in identifying trees 

 let us visit the woodlot and take, as it 

 were, a census of stock in hand. We 

 are going to use the axe a whole lot, 

 but not without knowing just what we 

 are doing and just what effects we ex- 

 pect to produce. You will find that 

 your first desire will be to have a rea- 

 sonably complete representation of the 

 various trees occurring in your locality 

 so that your woodlot will also be an ar- 



boretum on a small scale. You will also 

 be delighted to discover quite a number 

 of specimens outside of the immortal 

 forty-five, and may tabulate, including 

 the shrubs, some sixty-five to seventy 

 species in getting acquainted with the 

 fascinating tree neighbors that inhabit 

 your woodlot. 



Be also at the same time on the keen 

 lookout for "possibilities." By that I 

 mean those little delicious bits of land- 

 scape that Nature has already been 

 working over, the kind that the artist's 

 sensitive perception seizes upon — nat- 

 ural groves ; brook vistas ; a woodsey 

 meadow filled with riotous sumac and 

 a magnificent scarlet oak growing in it, 



