AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The Magazine of the American Forestri) Association 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



Herman H. Chapman 

 Ernest A. Sterling 



EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



S. T. Dana 



Frederick S. Underbill 



John E. Rhodes 

 S. N. Spring 



November. 1915. Vol.21 



CONTENTS 



No. 263 



Cover Picture -The Sugar Maple Tree 



The Sugar Maple — Llcntification and Characteristics 



With live lUustratiuns. 

 Commercial Uses of Sugar Maple — By Hu Maxwell 



With fourteen illustrations. 



Maple Sugar Making — With two illustrations 



Annual Meeting in Boston 



The Reforestation Movement in China — By W. F. Sherfesee. , 



With eleven illustrations. 



Land Speculators Block Settlement 



Suggestions for Using "Cypress Knees" — By Howard F. Weiss 



With eleven illustrations. 



The First Town Forest . . 



Growing Pine at a Profit — By J. R. Simmons - 



With four illustrations. 

 Love of Shade Trees — By Mrs. Emmons Crocker 



With one portrait. 



The Bird Department— By A. A. Allen, Ph.D 



Kill-Dee — Poem, by H. L. Johnson 



Logging Rasak and Lagan — By T. R. Helms 



With five illustrations. 

 Giant White Pine 



W^ith one illustration. 



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1031 

 1032 

 1033 



1040 



1041 



1042 

 1043 



1046 



1047 

 1040 

 1050 



1053 



Forest Relations between the East and the West as the East 

 Hopes to See Them — Address by Dr. Henry S. Drinker , 1054 



.. . .1056 



.1058 



A Trip on the Apache National Forest — By A. P. W. , . . 



With SIX illustrations. 



Whittier's Pine Tree— By Agnes L. Scott 



With one illustration. 



Children's Department — The Sprout Growth cf Trees — Bv 



Bnstuw Adams '. 1059 



With three illustrations. 



Wood Preserving Department — By E A. Sterling 1061 



Ornamental and Shade Trees — Common-sense Labels on Park 

 Trees — By j. J. Levison 1062 



Arborists Will Meet in Newark in January 1065 



Forestry at the Exposition 1065 



The Situation in Michigan — By H. H. Chapman 1066 



Editorial 1068 



Forest Notes ."'. 1070 



Canadian Department — By EUw'ood Wilson 1071 



Current Literature 1072 



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