AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The JVLagazine of the American Forestry 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 



December 1916. Vol. 22 



CONTENTS 



No. 276 



The Red Spruce — Identification and Characteristics — By P. L. 



Buttrick 705 



With ten illustrations. 



Playgrounds on National Forests 712 



With ten illustrations. 



Some Problems With Everyday Birds — By A. A. Allen 718 



With ten illustrations. 



Rocky Mountain National Park — By Mark Daniels 724 



With five iUustrations. 



Little-Known Forest Products 730 



Studying Plants in Wmter— By R. W. Shufeldt 731 



With six illustrations. 



Record for Rapid Growth— By D. T. Mason 737 



With one illustration. 



The Ancient Cedars of Lebanon— By Guy E. Mitchell 738 



With two illustrations. 



Another Imported Tree Disease 739 



Explanation of The G-Trees 740 



With four iUustrations. 

 First Aid to Wounded Trees — By J. J. Levison 741 



With two illustrations. 



Forestry for Boys and Girls — By Bristow Adams 744 



Common Sense and Christmas Trees. 

 Use of Blight Killed Chestnut 746 



With one illustration. 



A Petrified Stump 746 



With one illustration. 



Great Forestry Conference and Annual Meeting 747 



The Pine Blister Disease 748 



With two iUustrations. 



The National Forest Enterprises — By Hon. David Houston .... 750 

 Editorial 752 



Forests and Climate. 



The Lesson of the Pine Blister Canker. 



Great Friend of Forestry Dead. 



Canadian Department — By Ellwood WUson 755 



Current Literature 757 











NOMINATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP 



A special request is made to members of the American Forestry Association to nominate for 

 membership, friends whom they believe will be interested in the work of the Association and 

 who would like to secure the magazine, American Forestry. 



I Nominate for Membership: 





Signed . 



Address. 



*Mi.ff> r^^y <»..•* <-»*'> *■».»> ' v> <v> ^7jy> ^'4S> ^v» ff^y *f^\ <»**> f*^\ ^V> <-V> ^-v^ <V> ' V> 'V> 'V.> ''VI> 'V* 'V> "♦^> 'V> "♦*> 'V* 'V> 'V* 'V> 'V> 'V> *"V> <"V> ^'it'^ «AS» 



KffiWVc TiTc oTc TiV rfc •?*c' ?K' -?tc' otr ntc otc otc ?!c ntc ^y,' ?tc o*c' '?r/ vr, vfr vr,- rcc «;■ hc ?iTc' «(?■ rfc ok ?*c rft otc ?!c V'- cSmbJ 

 (2g^ l;^ t!^ u§j u4j l4j u^J u4j ^^ *-4j k--&J l-6-J ^-^ 



AMERICAN FORESTRY is published monthly by the American Forestry Association. Subscription price, three doUars per year; single 



copies, twenty-five cents. 



Entered as second-class mail matter December 24, 1909, at the Post-office at Washington, under the Act of March 3. 1879 



