ARBORICULTURE 



65 



Immature, sappy trees quickly decay 

 because this resinous material has not 

 been stored in sufficient quantity. This is 

 why mine timbers only last two or three 

 years. 



I would urge for the interests of the 

 railways, mines, and for agriculture, an 

 entire cessation of this practice of cutting 

 small trees. It will be fatal to the inter- 

 ests of the state to destroy the forests 

 covering these mountain sides ; climatic 

 conditions, snow protection, water sup- 

 ply, depend upon these young' growths. 



The mines will require timbers, rail- 

 ways- will need ties, manufactures will 

 demand lumber — as much twenty years 

 hence as to-day, and provision should be 

 made nozu to supply those future de- 

 mands. 



Two decades hence and forest prod- 

 ucts, exhausted in the Rocky Mountains, 

 consumed in the middle states, exported 

 from all our seacoasts, will be obtained 

 only from tropical regions, unless we are 

 wise enough to protect young growths. 



INCREASE IN WOOD GROWTH. 



Rocky Mountain timber grows quite 

 slowly, having a short growing season, 

 and scant supply of moisture. Pine 

 {Finns ponderosa) increases five inches 

 diameter in twenty years, but this an- 

 nual increase extending around the out- 

 side of a constantly increasing body, 

 counts rapidly in bulk, amounting in two 

 decades to 700 per cent gain. 



Trees have numerous enemies during 

 the early period of their existence, but 

 as they gain in strength of root and body 

 are able to be self protecting. 



Our illustration shows a quantity of 

 these baby spruce piled up by the railway 

 for shipment — not one was over five 

 inches diameter, each five-foot stick rep- 

 resenting a tree of that most valuable 

 timber, Douglas spruce. 



There was not a tree left in miles cir- 

 cuit, where a few months before there 

 had been fine thickets. 



The man who directed this destruction 

 cannot in a lifetime compensate for his 

 criminal and ignorant spoliation. 



IMPRO\^EMENT IN TEXT-BOOKS. 



Young people now in the public 

 schools can scarcely appreciate the rapid 

 progress made in school Text Books in 

 recent 3ears, and do not know what a 

 task it was to obtain an education with 

 books available half a century ago. 



The numerous handsome ensfravincfs 

 which go so far to elucidate every sub- 

 ject, the clear print, good types, better 

 paper and improvement in every depart- 

 ment of book manufactory, all aid the 

 pupils in mastering difficult branches of 

 education. 



The American Book Company has con- 

 tributed very largely to this advance- 

 ment in Text Books, all their books be- 

 ing models of elegance and furnish the 

 highest methods of instruction, with 

 prices which place the best books within 

 the reach of all. 



TAKE COMFORT WHILE YOU 

 TRAVEL. 



The trains on the Big 4 Railway are 

 thoroughly equipped, the roadbed is solid 

 and smooth, its cars are palaces on 

 wheels, the officers courteous and oblig-- 

 mg. With speedy trains, invariably on 

 time, there is a comfort and satisfaction 

 in travel. 



The Editor of Arboriculture would 

 call attention of all friends of the new 

 magazine to the advertisement of Oliver 

 Typewriter on page vi, and at the same 

 time acknowledge the courteous treat- 

 ment accorded by the gentlemen of that 

 firm. We like the Oliver and commend 

 it to those who contemplate buying a 

 typewriter as being perfect in mechanism 

 and satisfactory in every particular. 



Forest Nursery, Connersville, Ind.. can 

 supply genuine Catalpa speciosa trees and 

 seed in any quantity. 



