American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestri^ Association 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



Herman H. Chapman Frederick S. Underbill 



Ernest A. Sterling John E. Rhodes 



S. T. Dana S. N. Spring 



July, 1915. Vol.21 CONTENTS No. 259 



COVER PICTURE— Hungry Horse Creek, Flathead National Forest, Montana 



FORESTS IN THE RUSSIAN WAR ZONE— By Stanley Washburn 755 



With eleven illustrations. 



CALIFORNIA TREE NOVELTIES— By E. A. Sterling— Part 1 768 



With ten illustrations. 



HARDWOODS ON THE COUNTRY ESTATE— By Warren H. Miller, M. F 780 



With nine illustrations. 



FOREST CONFERENCE IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS 791 



BROOKLINE PROTECTS BIRDS— By Charles B. Floyd 792 



With two illustrations. 



ORNAMENTAL AND SHADE TREES— HICKORY TREES THREATENED WITH 



DESTRUCTION— By J. J. Levison 797 



With six illustrations. 



NEW ENGLAND'S FEDERAL FOREST^RESERVE— By PhiUp W. Ayres 803 



With seven illustrations. 



H. H. CHAPMAN 813 



With one portrait. 



JAPANESE FOREST SCHOOL 814 



With one illustration. 



THE BLACK HAWK TREE— By Jens Jensen 815 



ESTABROOKS PARK 816 



With two illustrations. 



OLD AX MARKS IN TREES— By Avern Pardoe 817 



A WORK ON THE CONSERVATION OF WATER BY STORAGE— By Dr. Geor-e 



Fillmore Swain, Reviewed by Henry Sturgis Drinker 818 



EDITORIAL 821 



FOREST NOTES 823 



CANADIAN DEPARTMENT— By Ellwood Wilson 824 



BRITISH COLUMBIA NOTES 826 



CURRENT LITERATURE 827 



AMERICAN FORESTRY is published monthly by the American Forestry Association 



Subscription price, three dollars per year; single copies, twenty-five cents 



Copyright 1915, by the American Forestry Association 



Entered as second-class mail matter December 24, 1909, at the Post-oflBce at Washington, under the 



Act of March 3. 1879 



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