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ARBORICULTURE 



The Arts Palace. 



The World's Fair Progress. 



We visited the grounds of the World's 

 Fair at St. Louis last week and were sur- 

 prised at the rapid progress which has 

 been made. The management is deserv- 

 ing of great praise for the vast amount of 

 work accomplished. 



In forestry we are informed that a com- 

 petitive exhibit is arranged between Ger- 

 many and the United States. That is, the 

 great system which has been practiced for 



hundreds of years will be practiced on a 

 tract of land devoted to this exhibit, while 

 our American system (?) will be placed in 

 competition — German Foresters against 

 America. 



Two tracts of land, already partially 

 covered with trees, and each about five 

 acres in extent, have been assigned to the 

 United States and German governments, 

 as the laboratory for their tests. The 

 two lie side by side, so that the visitor 

 may walk through what the Americans 

 call an "arboritum" and observe all meth- 

 ods of forestry, and then step across into 

 what the German designates as a "forest 

 garden," and learn the German method. 



No trees will be cut from either tract. 

 Rather, transplanting will be resorted to 

 and when the Exposition opens miniature 

 forests, perfect in every detail, with nar- 

 row gravel walks winding in and out, may 

 be seen. Every tree that thrives in the 

 latitude of St. Louis will be represented 

 and the specimen can be easily designated. 

 Attached to each tree will be an alumi- 

 num label on which will be stamped the 

 botanical and common names. 



In one respect the exhibits will be the 

 same, Each display will embrace prac- 

 tically the same number of trees and they 

 will be practically of the same varieties. 

 Here all similarity ceases. The treat- 

 ment will accord with the practices in 

 vogue in the respective countries. In the 

 American arboritum the trees will be 

 planted, trained and pruned according to 

 the American idea. In the German forest 

 garden will be reproduced, in the minia- 

 ture, the effects that obtain in the Father- 

 land, and the story of how the wonderful 

 forests of that wonderful country have 

 been preserved through ages, and renewed 

 from time to time, will be told by practi- 

 cal demonstrations. 



The exhibits will be in charge of the 

 most expert foresters to be found in the 

 two countries. Interest will not center in 

 the exhibits merely because they represent 

 all that is best in the forestry of both 

 countries, but because of the practical 

 demonstrations and tests that will be made 

 every day of the Exposition. Trees will 

 be transplanted and the most approved 

 apparatus for this work will be shown in 

 actual operation. Trees will be pruned 

 and trained, and all of the implements 

 used will be a part of the exhibit. Trees 

 will be inoculated with disease, and when 

 the disease is fully developed the most 

 approved treatment will be accorded the 

 affected trees, careful date will be kept 

 on all such experiments and the results 

 will be made known, together with a full 

 description of the treatment in order that 

 the preservation of the forests may be ac- 

 complished. 



