ARBORICULTURE 



A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE 



Published in the Interest of the 

 International Society of Arboriculture. 



Subscription $1.(X) per aniuim. John P. Brown, Editor and Publisher, Connersville, Indiana 



Entered as Second-class Matter at Connersville, Ind., April i6, 1906, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1S79 



Volume V. 



Connersville, Indiana, July- August, 1906. 



Number 5. 



Address of John P. Brown 



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To Students of ll'alHisli College, Craxv[ordsviUe, Ind., May ^i, ipo6. 



Young Gentlemen : — You are living 

 in a transitory period. The great forests 

 which covered all our State and the en- 

 tire eastern and southern portions of the 

 United States are passing away, and a 

 future period is not far distant when all 

 this territory will be practically treeless. 



Probably none of you have been obliged 

 to enter the wilderness of forests and 

 with the axe open a clearing within which 

 to build a home and farm, as did your 

 fathers only half a century ago. Yet )ou 

 will see the last of the disappearing for- 

 ests, and learn the absolute necessity of 

 planting trees upon a far more extensive 

 scale than has ever been dreamed of in 

 order to check the disastrous climatic 

 changes which even now are becoming 

 more apparent from the removal of so 

 great areas of timber. 



If you have been observant of passing 

 events, you have seen vast manufacturing 

 establishments and numerous extensive 

 sawmilling industries cease operations, 

 obliged to abandon their business and to 

 discharge many thousands of employees 

 because of exhaustion of timber supply 

 with which to operate their plants. 



A score of vears hence, not a very long 



period in a nation's history, and five thou- 

 sand times as many laborers will be out 

 of employment, obliged to change their 

 occupations, and vast enterprises which 

 are now engaged in manufacturing wood 

 products will be abandoned for the same 

 reason. 



There will be no other forests to con- 

 quer, no other land to clear of trees, make 

 lumber, manufacture wagons, furniture, 

 farm implements, and to build houses, 

 unless they shall be planted by man. 



Indiana, which has so prospered by her 

 great industries in wood manufactures, 

 and which only a third of a century since 

 was the chief manufacturing and pro- 

 ducing center of hardwood timber of 

 North America, to-day brings all her tim- 

 ber from other States far distant, and 

 ere two more decades shall have passed 

 ever}' wood manufactory in our State will 

 have ceased to operate as such, while the 

 machinery will lie rusting in the ruins, 

 the vacant smoke stacks monuments of a 

 former greatness, lost forever. The State 

 once possessed nineteen million acres of 

 magnificent forests. 



You may now realize more vividly than 

 ever before how important it is to the 



