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CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



Evergreens for All Year Beauty 



Screens — Hedges — Windbreaks 



Many places lose their beauty when ihe leaves 

 fall in Autumn. There is nothing in the landscape 

 to sustain interest. 



Other places remain attractive and cheerful 

 looking. They have plenty of color. The cold 

 winds are tempered. There is 

 as much fascination in rambling 

 about the grounds in winter as 

 in summer. 



^^EVERGREENS make the 

 difference when nature has 

 wrought her worst havoc with 

 snow and sleet, iheir beauty is 

 only intensified as they bend 

 fantastically under their icy load 

 and glisten with ciystal drapery. 



Plant In August or September 



if vou are ready, or later if neces- 

 sary. Whenever you plant and 

 whatever you plant, it is guar- 

 anteed-IF YOU GET IT FROM 

 HICKS. Get our special prices now 

 iiii several thousand evergreens 

 J s ft. high. We must clear from 

 ised land. Very highest quality 

 ,;. root and top. 



KICKS NURSERIES 

 Box F Westbury, L. I., N. Y. 



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Seedlings and Transplants 



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Largest Growers in America 



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 full list of varieties and prices 



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 Dresher Pennsylvania 



Orchids 



Wc are specialists in 

 Orchids ; we collect, im- 

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 exclusively. 



Our illustrated and descriptive catalogue of 

 Orchids may be had on application. Also spe- 

 cial list of freshly imported unestablished 

 Orchids, 



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HOW TO PRUNE YOUR TREES 



Always use a pole saw and pole 

 shears on the tips of the long branches. 



Do not "head back" or cut off the 

 top of a tree except where the tree is 

 old and failing, and then under special 

 instructions. 



Be as sparing and as judicious in 

 pruning as possible, and do not raise 

 the branches so high as to make the 

 tree look like a telegraph pole. 



Commence pruning the tree from the 

 top and finish at the bottom. 



Make every cut as close and parallel 

 to the trunk as possible. 



To make the cut perfectly smooth the 

 saw must be well set and sharp. 



Leave no stubs, dead and dying wood, 

 or fungus-covered branches behind 

 you. 



Do not fail to cover every wound with 

 coal tar, not allowing it needlessly to 

 run down the trunk. 



Do not remove several large branches 

 on one tree at a time. They must be 

 removed gradually, the work extending 

 over several seasons. 



large share of the natural wealth of the 



country the eflfect of putting such responsi- 

 bilities on the shoulders of second-rate men 

 will be disastrous. 



The patrol flights of the seaplanes of the 

 St. Maurice Forest Protective Association 

 have commenced and are proving practical. 

 It is easily possible to locate forest fires 

 at forty to fifty miles and if they are not 

 too far from a lake or a river the plane 

 crew can descend and extinguish them. A 

 forester who made a flight recently reports 



that the various timber types can easily be 

 distinguished and that photographs taken 

 from the air will make most satisfactory 

 maps. 



Forest fires of large size are reported in 

 the Cochrane and Cobalt districts and some 

 cut pulpwood is reported destroyed. 



The Aftenposten, a daily newspaper pub- 

 lished in Christianis, Norway, has an article 

 on Silviculture and Social Conditions in 

 Canada, which refers to the work of the 

 Laurentide Company and gives photographs 

 of its nursery and reclamation work. It 

 says that labor conditions in Canada are 

 better than those in Norway and that 

 Canada is getting ahead of Norway in for- 

 estry matters. The article was written by 

 Mr. W. Rolsted, who is in charge of the 

 Royal Forests. 



The Province of New Brunswick has 

 issued a circular letter appealing to school 

 teachers and pupils to co-operate in pre- 

 venting forest fires and to try and tell 

 people how they can aid this great work. 

 It explains how to build and extinguish a 

 camp fire, how to notify a fire ranger in 

 case a fire is discovered, and describes the 

 uses and necessity for keeping our forests. 



In forestry, as in every other movement 

 for better conditions education is the most 

 important thing. Legislation, especially if 

 repressive, arouses antagonism, and often 

 defeats its aim. Education of all, from the 

 child to the adult, brings the best and quick- 

 est results. The writer is reminded in this 

 connection of an incident which he witness- 

 ed while Hving in Switzerland. A bill was 

 brought before the legislature for compul- 

 sory old age insurance. A few months be- 

 fore the bill was to be voted on the govern- 

 ment sent around to every city, village and 

 hamlet, lecturers who discussed both sides 

 of the question impartially, giving figures 

 of the cost of such a scheme, the results 

 attained in other countries and all possi- 

 ble information. When the time came for 

 the vote, the people knew just what they 

 were doing and had thoroughly discussed 

 the thing among themselves. It has been 

 said that for twenty years forestry propa- 

 ganda has been carried on in the United 

 States and is still without appreciable re- 

 sult. The trouble has been that the propa- 

 ganda has not reached the people and has 

 not been sufficiently intensive. It has been 

 too technical and has not aimed at one re- 

 form at a time. It has tried to cover the 

 whole field. People who have always been 

 interested in the forest are reached but the 

 great mass of the people see the question 

 still as one of more or less academic inter- 

 est only. It must be brought home to them 

 more directly. 



