ARBORICULTURE 



A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE 



Published in the Interest of the 

 International Society of Arboriculture. 



Subscription $L00 per annum. John P. Brown, Editor and Publisher, Connersville, Indiana. 



Entered as Second-class Matter January 4th, 1904. 



Volume v. 



Connersville, Indiana, May, 1906. 



Number 4. 



The United States Government Opposed to 



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Forest Planting. 



A BUREAU DETERMINED THAT TREES SHALIv NOT BE PLANTED. 



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VAST SUMS OF GOVERNMENT MONEY MISAPPLIED TO PREVENT THE EXTENSION 



OP FORESTS. 



A CAUSE FOR CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION. 



The people in the United States have 

 the disgraceful spectacle of an important 

 branch of the Government, organized for 

 the special purpose of encouraging the 

 perpetuation of our forests, subverting 

 their purposes, and actually engaged in 

 discouraging corporations and individ- 

 uals from planting trees. 



During the past six years the Inter- 

 national Society of Aboriculture has been 

 obliged to expend 



FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS 



in efforts to overcome the evil influences 

 caused by the publications and personal 

 attacks by the United States Forestry 

 Bureau officials in their antagonism to 

 the work of this society, mostly caused 

 by the gross ignorance of employes of 

 the Bureau. 



Moneys appropriated by Congress for 

 the sole purpose of protecting our forests 

 and extending them by planting trees, 



misappropriated, the officials of the For- 

 estry Bureau advancing arguments 

 against the planting of Catalpa speciosa 

 trees, of which they are as totally ig- 

 norant as they are of many other prac- 

 tical matters pertaining to forest growth 

 and management. This has now been 

 going on so long, and with such disas- 

 trous results, that forbearance ceases to 

 be a virtue, and we are compelled- to 

 make this expose of the United States 

 Forestry Bureau methods. 



The American Congress has been very 

 liberal in providing the Forestry Bureau 

 with unlimited funds to carry out the 

 work of forest perpetuation. An army 

 of clerks, apprentices, professionals and 

 sinecurists are employed by the Bureau 

 in various ways and at very high sala- 

 ries. Large numbers of young men, just 

 out of college, are maintained in the 

 field as professional foresters, with hotel 



