AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 

 EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



Herman H. Chapman 

 Ernest A. Sterling 



S. T. Dana 



Frederick S. Underbill 



John E. Rhodes 

 S. N. Spring 



Ftbruary, 1916. Vol. 22 



C O N T E N 1> 



No. 266 



The Douglas Fir— Cover Picture. Copyrighted by Darius Kinsey. 



The Douglas Fir — Identification and Characteristics — By S. B. 



Dctwikn- 67 



With three illustrations. 



Commercial Uses of Douglas Fir — By J. S. Williams 69 



With ten illustrations. 



In a Washington Forest — Poem by Donald A. Eraser 75 



The Tree of Legend and Romance — By Mark Daniels 76 



With nine illustrations. 



The Bird Department— By A. A. Allen, Ph. D 82 



With ten illustrations. 



Control of Larch Mistletoe 85 



The Association's New President 86 



With one photograph. 



The Children's Department — By BristowAdams.' 90 



Witli two drawings. 



Tower Falls of the Yellowstone 91 



Wood Older Than the Hills— By Arthur Koehler 92 



With three illustrations. 



The Cowled Monk 93 



Kentucky's Forestry Building 93 



Lecturing in Chekiang — By D. Y. Lin 94 



With one illustration. 



Farewell, Old Tree — Poem by Pauline Brandreth 96 



The White Pine Blister Rust 97 



Nut-Growing, A New American Industry — By William C. 99' 

 Deming. 



With nine illustrations. 



Wood Preserving Department — By O. P. M. Goss 105 



Witli two illustrations. 



Ornamental and Shade Trees— By William W. Colton, B. S. 107 

 With four illustrations. 



Editorial: Public Playgrounds Threatened 112 



The Weeks Law Hearing 112 



War's Effect on Trees— By F. McVickar 113 



Society of American Foresters Meeting 114 



The Annual Meeting 115 



Conservation at the Second Pan-American Scientific Congress, 1 1 7 



Canadian Department — By Ellwood Wilson 120 



Current Literature 121 



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