ARBORICULTURE 



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moved, with but little foliage to protect the 

 bark, it sometimes becomes scalded in the 

 sun, and borers gain access. 



The trunk of newly planted trees should 

 always have a shade on the south side. The 

 tree box will afford this protection. 



The Editor of Arboriculture desires to 

 express the thanks of the society to the 

 numerous friends who have written them 

 congratulations, and the press which has 

 said so many good things of our paper. To 

 reproduce these press notices would require 

 more than our " fourteen pages of reading 

 matter," and we must forbear this pleasure. 



TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND ACRES. 



p]very twenty-four hours the railroads, 

 manufacturers and home builders of the 

 United States demand twenty-live thousand 

 acres of timber land. That is, there is a 

 daily consumption of all the wood the 

 trees in twenty-five thousand acres supply. 



J. Sterling Morton. 



The removal of shade trees from a street 

 without any notice of the public necessity 

 therefor to the owner of the fee, and with- 

 out giving him any opportunity to transplant 

 them or remove them himself, is held, in 

 Stretch vs. Cassopolis (Mich. 51, L. R. A. 

 345,) to be an invasion of his rights, for 

 which he is entitled to damages. 



Sample copies of Arboriculture are 

 sent to many public libraries and to individ- 

 uals. Unless an interest is shown by the 

 recipients, and request for continuance, 

 these will cease. We do not intend to 

 make any charge for sample copies nor 

 send Arboriculture to anyone who does 

 not desire it. 



EXTRAVAGANT PRAISE. 



Our esteemed contemporary from the 

 tropical banana fields of Minnesota, the 

 Pioneer Pr'ess, says: 



The rapid multiplication of such periodicals 

 as ForeMry and Irrigation, The Home Florint, 

 Meehan's Monthly, etc., shows the rude po])ular 

 interest in the horticultural and arboricultural 

 " colts." The latest candidate for popular favor 

 in this line is Arboriculture, a monthly, the 

 publication of which has just begun under the 

 auspices of the International Society of 

 Arboriculture. It was thought that a 

 first edition of 1,000 copies would suffice 

 to meet the demands of subscribers, but it was 

 found necessary to print 4,000. "So far as it 

 goes," the new magazine is very good. It has 

 a fine portrait of J. Sterling Morton as a 

 frontispiece and several other good illustrations, 

 but only fourteen pages of reading matter. 

 The price is $2.00 per annum. Plainly the 

 publishers will have to give more for the money 

 or the undertaking will prove a failure. 



We are glad to learn that the "Rude 

 Popular Interest" appreciates concentration. 

 Fourteen pages of substantial literature 

 may prove of greater benefit to the world 

 than a forty-page Sunday issue of the great 

 daily of Saint Paul. 



