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ARBORICULTURE 



Press Notices of Practical Arboriculture. 



[From Chicago Inter-Ocean.'\ 



A Text-Book on Forestry, by John P. 

 Brown. 



John P. Brown, C.E., editor and pub- 

 lisher of Arboriculture, has brought out 

 a useful work with the title, "Practical 

 Arboriculture: How Forests Influence 

 Climate, Control the Winds, Prevent 

 Floods, Sustain National Prosperity." 

 The work is "A text-book for railway en- 

 gineers, manufacturers, lumbermen, and 

 farmers," and sets forth "how, where, and 

 what to plant for the rapid production of 

 lumberj cross-ties, telegraph poles, and 

 other timbers." It is profusely illustrated 

 with original photographs by the author, 

 and portraits, and is a sturdy volume of 

 four hundred and sixty pages. 



In justifying the publication of "an- 

 other book," the author says, among other 

 things : 



"Probably no people in the world are 

 more extravagant and wasteful of things 

 which may for the time be abundant. In 

 no case is this more marked than in the 

 disposal of American forests. Once very 

 abundant, now practically gone in most 

 regions. 



"Books have been written and printed 

 at government expense to prove our vast 

 possessions in forests, which have lulled 

 Congress to sleep upon the matter of for- 

 est protection, while interested capitalists 

 have obtained possession of all timber 

 land, and are destroying the nation's 

 wealth. 



"Climatic changes are occurring, great- 

 ly detrimental to the agricultural and 

 other interests of the country, from the 

 removal of timber from the great moun- 

 tain ranges. 



"Manufacturing industries represent- 

 ing many million dollars ceased opera- 

 tions, while others will soon close down 

 from the exhaustion of timber supplies as 

 the forests are being exterminated. 



"Several million laborers dependent 

 upon the continuance of the wood indus- 

 tries are obliged to find other occupations 

 as the wheels of machinery become silent 

 from the same cause. 



"The inland commerce of the nation is 

 borne upon one billion cross-ties, while 

 two hundred millions are required an- 

 nually to renew those exhausted from 

 decay. In a quarter of a century five 

 billion ties will be demanded for such 

 renewals. 



"It is time for America to stop and 

 think what we are going to do when the 

 forests have become exhausted, and this 

 after the first one-third of the twentieth 

 century has passed. 



"The era of extending the American 

 forest area by extensive planting of trees 

 has come, and we are beginning none too 

 soon. If we can aid the American people 

 and those of the old world as well in pro- 

 viding a supply of timber for the coming 

 generation, and show them how we of the 

 present generation may also be benefited, 

 indicating what to plant, where to plant, 

 and how to plant, and incite those who 

 are indifferent and careless as well as 

 those who have a care for the future, and 

 especially if we can bring this matter to 

 the attention of our lawmakers in Con- 

 gress and various State Legislatures, thus 

 we may be justified in thrusting another 

 book upon the public." 



Mr. Brown's work considers a great 

 variety of subjects in connection with the 



