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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



miles southeast of the site selected for plant- 

 ing. This site is on a moist flat not far 

 from Nevada City, and is about 2,700 feet 

 above sea level. The first seeding was done 

 in the fall of 1910, with very successful re- 

 sults, and last fall an additional area was 

 seeded. 



The method used in planting the seed 

 was that known to foresters as "the seed 

 spot method." Spots about six feet apart 

 each way were prepared by pulverizing the 



earth with a garden hoe. Seeds were then 

 dropped on these spots and lightly pressed 

 in the soil with the foot. The flourishing 

 condition of the young seedlings gives good 

 reason to expect a future growth of big trees 

 at this point. With protection of forests 

 from fire there seems to be no reason why 

 the big trees should disappear ; even though 

 scientists regard them as survivals from a 

 past age, botanically speaking. 



BOOK REVIEWS 



Forestry in New England : By Ralph C. Haw- 

 ley and Austin Hawes. New York; 

 John Wiley & Sons. 1912. Pp. XV + 

 479. Illustrated. 

 Teachers, students and practitioners of 

 forestry will welcome this book which deals 

 in so comprehensive and authoritative a 

 manner with the specific forest problems of 

 New England. The authors are practical 

 foresters who have devoted years of study 

 to forest conditions and management in the 

 East. In the light of their own experience 

 they have gathered together and made readily 

 available the results of investigations which 

 have been made from time to time, the rec- 

 ords of which have previously existed in a 

 heterogeneous mass of bulletins, articles, and 

 reports. In preparing this book the authors 

 had in mind two distinct purposes : First, to 

 present a treatise or manual of practical 

 value to all classes of land owners in the 

 East ; and second, to produce a textbook 

 treating of forestry in New England. The 

 latter is greatly needed at this time, especially 

 in the various agricultural colleges where 

 courses in forestry are given and where it is 

 essential that thorough instruction in the 



forest problems of the northeastern United 

 States be furnished. There is a still wider 

 field for a book deaHng with a specific por- 

 tion of the country, so arranged as to serve 

 as a ready guide for owners of woodland 

 in that section. It has evidently been the 

 aim of the authors to present the matter in 

 the simplest and least technical form pos- 

 sible without sacrificing accuracy, to the 

 end that readers not familiar with forestry 

 may have no difficulty in following the dis- 

 cussion throughout. 



As a textbook for post-graduate schools 

 giving the highest grade of instruction in 

 forestry this book will have a greater value 

 for its detailed discussion of New England 

 forests than for the portion dealing with 

 general forestry. But for numerous under- 

 graduate schools 'giving a slightly lower 

 grade of instruction all portions of this book 

 will prove useful. To the owner of wood- 

 lands in the region it will afford not only 

 general information in regard to forestry 

 and its application in New England, but also 

 practical assistance in the detailed treatment 

 of his local forest problem. S. J. R. 



EDUCATIONAL 



The Biltmore Forest Schiool 



The early spring found the Biltmore 

 Forest School returned from its winter 

 quarters in the German forests and en- 

 camped near Biltmore, N. C, at the snug 

 logging camp of the Champion Lumber 

 Company, owners of 135,000 acres of the 

 finest timberland existing in the Southern 

 Appalachians. No better setting for the 

 course in "Logging and Lumbering" in 

 which the school is now engaged can be 

 imagined than that met at "Sunburst." 

 Here the mountains rise to elevations of 

 6,550 feet. The slopes are steep, and the 

 stumpage is unequally distributed over the 

 entire area. Thus it happens that the log- 

 ging problems confronting the Champion 

 Lumber Co., whose hospitality the Biltmore 

 Foresters enjoyed at Sunburst, are very 

 diversified and intensely interesting. 



Near the camp of the Biltmore Forest 

 School, some 16 miles down the meanders of 

 beautiful Pigeon River framed in flowering 

 mountain laurel (Calmia latifolia), rises the 

 smoke from the giant fibre works owned by 

 the friends of the Biltmore Forest School, 

 the Champion Fibre Co. Theirs is the 

 hugest fibre plant, by far, to-day existing in 

 the South. 500 long cords of spruce, hem- 

 lock, pine, basswood, and notably chestnut 

 are here converted, every day, into fibre by 

 the sulphite and by the soda process of man- 

 ufacture. 



The lecture work during the stay of the 

 Biltmore Forest School in the camps of the 

 Champion Lumber Co. occupied the entire 

 forenoons. Logging and lumbering was the 

 main topic of Director C. A. Schenck's 

 course. Dr. House lectured on plant physi- 

 ology and morphology; Dr. G. L. Sioussat 



