258 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



to the sunny yellow pine slopes of California is, to the trained eye, 

 fun, just keen, mental fun. Even a limited amount of forest lore is 

 «, never failing source of enjoyment. It is the real resource to one 

 who annually joins the American army whose stamping ground is 

 the great out of doors. 



The Forestry Department of the University offers a course (F. 

 1, p. 332 ofthe Bulletin) in General Forestry. The aim is to give 

 students from all departments as well as those beginning forestry an 

 insight into this new, little understood and mighty interesting sub- 

 ject. The department desires to make tliis course a live and very 

 worthwhile one to students, both men and women. There is much 

 in forestry for women, especially in farm and city work. 



The department aims to make the course first a means to a better 

 understanding of the great forest conserv ation problem so intimately 

 related to the political and economic issues of our times. Such 

 knowledge should make more intelligent voters and hence better 

 citizens. Is there a more important excuse for liberal education 

 than to make good citizens? 



Secondly, the course aims to give an insight into city forestry 

 as a step toward bringing something of the value of the open country 

 to the confines of steel and concrete, asphalt and trolleycars. — From 

 "Daily Nebraskan." 



COMMERCIAL Si liGEKY FOR SICK TREES DEMANDS RELIABLE 



MEN. 



Tree Surgery as a Science Every Year More (»enerally Appreciated. 

 Siiagestioiis for Improvement Through Cooperation. 



Washington, D. C. — A cavity in the decayed tree is something 

 like a cavity in a decayed tooth. If an unreliable tree surgeon who has 

 been called in to save the tree only partially removes the diseased part 

 of the wood, uses no antiseptic coatings in the cavity and fills it up 

 with cement the tree is no more cured than is a person whose decayed 

 tooth has not been properly filled by a dentist. The only difference 

 is that after the cavity has been covered, if the work has not been 

 properly done the tree has no way of making its trouble known except 

 by further decay. 



Within the last decade there has been a great increase in demand 

 for surgeons to repair decaying trees, but the possibilities of practic- 

 ing fraud in this profession like the instance just cited have tempted 

 so many unreliable people to dabble in the science that tree surgery 

 jias fallen somewhat into disrepute. The U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture realizes that commercial tree surgery should occupy a high place 

 in the estimation of the public, and has recently issued a pamphlet 

 -entitled, "Practical Tree Surgery," wherein suggestions are made for 

 improvement along these lines. 



