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forests. He discusses many of our forest 

 trees, such as the oak, hickory, black wal- 

 nut, and Cottonwood, paying particular 

 attention to the catalpa. He considers the 

 relation between disastrous river floods 

 and forest destruction ; the influence of 

 forests upon a people ; the waste of the 

 loggers ; management of forest planta- 

 tions ; erosion ; the petrified forests and 

 their lesson, and many other phases of the 

 forestry question. Some of the author's 

 photographs are very effective in illus- 

 trating his points. 



Mr. Brown does not confine his efforts 

 in the cause of arboriculture to the edit- 

 ing of his magazine and the writing of 

 books. He is actively engaged in the 

 work of directing the planting of new 

 forests. He moves about the country, 

 selecting lands, procuring trees, employ- 

 ing labor, and putting the trees into the 

 ground. He is directly responsible for 

 the planting of more than a million trees 

 in twenty dififerent localities in twelve 

 States, to say nothing of another million 

 planted by individual land owners acting 

 upon his advice. In these circumstances 

 Mr. Brown should certainly speak with 

 authority on most phases of arboriculture, 

 (Published by the author, Connersville, 

 Indiana. $2.50.) 



would form a very suggestive book. I 

 am very glad to have been favored with 

 a copy of this volume, on which you 

 must have put a great amount of time 

 and thought. I congratulate you upon 

 getting out so useful a publication, and 

 hope it may have a wide circulation, 

 which it merits. 

 With kind regards. 



Sincerely yours, 



Samuel B. Green. 



Your work, ''Practical Arboriculture/' 

 came in due time, and I thank you warmly 

 for preparing it. It is beautifully gotten 

 up. J. F. Carrigan, M.D. 



St. L^, Florida. 



SPECIAL NOTICE. 



To THE Members o^ the Interna- 

 tional Society oif Arboriculture. 



University of Minnesota, St. Anthony 



Park, Minn., June 6, 1906. 

 Mr. John P. Brozvn, Connersville, Ind. 



Dear Sir: — I have just received a 

 copy of your work, "Practical Arboricul- 

 ture," and have looked it over with lots 

 of interest. 



You certainly have taken a broad view 

 of the situation, and yet there is suffi- 

 cient detail for the general reader. The 

 illustrations are particularly good, and 

 serve to lighten up the text. In fact, if 

 they were bound by themselves, they 



We wish it to be fully understood that 

 John P. Brown, the editor of Arboricul- 

 ture, is also its sole owner and publisher. 

 He alone is responsible for all its utter- 

 ances. 



No officer or member of the Interna- 

 tional Society of Arboriculture is mor- 

 ally or financially responsible for anything 

 which appears in this magazine, unless it 

 appears over his own signature. Nor is 

 any member responsible for any financial 

 dealings of the publisher of this magazine. 



We shall continue to advocate such 

 measures and practices as will improve 

 the forests of this and other lands, and 

 shall never hesitate to criticise or praise 

 the acts of our public servants, who so 

 often think they are the people's masters. 



When we are obliged to defend our- 

 selves, or the Society of which we are the 

 Secretary, we shall do so with all the 

 vigor which we possess. 



