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ARBORICULTURE 



Press Notices of Practical Aboriculture 



Chicago Inter-Ocean 



A TEXT-BOOK ON FORESTRY, BY JOHN P. BROWN 



John P. Brown, C. E., editor and publisher 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 engineers, 

 manufacturers, lumbermen and farmers," and 

 sets forth "how, where and what to plant for the 

 rapid production of lumber, cross-ties, telegraph 

 poles and other timbers." It is profusely illus- 

 trated with original photographs by the author, 

 and portraits, and is a sturdy 'volume of four hun- 

 dred and sixty pages. 



In justifying the publication of "another 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 gov- 

 ernment expense to prove our vast possessions in 

 forests, which have lulled Congress to sleep upon 

 the matter of forest protection, while interested 

 capitalists have obtained possession of all timber 

 land, and are destroying the nation's wealth. 



"Climatic changes are occurrmg, greatly detri- 

 mental to the agricultural and other interests of 

 the country, from the removal of timber from the 

 great mountain ranges. 



" Manufacturing industries representing many 

 million dollars ceased operations, 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 industries 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 requi red annually 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 providing 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 atten- 

 tion of our lawmakers in Congress 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 forests. He dis- 

 cusses many of our forest trees, such as the oak, 

 hickory, black walnut 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 plantations; erosion; the petrified forests 

 and their lesson, and many other phases of the 

 forestry question. Some of the author's photo- 

 graphs are very effective in illustrating his points. 



Mr. Brown does not confine his efforts in the 

 cause of arboriculture to the editing of his maga- 

 zine and the writing of books. He is actively 

 engaged in the work of directing the planting of 

 new forests. He moves about the country, select- 

 ing lands, procuring trees, employing labor, and 

 putting the trees into the ground. He is directly 

 responsible for the planting of more than a million 

 trees in twenty different localities in twelve States, 

 to say nothing of another million planted by indi- 

 vidual land owners acting upon his advice. In 

 these circumstances Mr. Brown should certainly 

 speak with authority on most phases of arboricul- 

 ture. (Published by the author, Connersville, 

 Indiana. $2.50.) 



University of Minnesota 



St. Anthony Park, Minn., June 6, 1906. 

 Mr. John P. Brown, 



Connersville, Ind. 



Dear Sir: — I have just received a copy of your 

 work, "Practical Arboriculture," and have looked 

 it over with lots of interest. 



You certainly have taken a broad view of the 

 situation, and yet there is sufficient 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 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 on getting out so 

 useful a publication, and hope it may have a wide 

 circulation, which it merits. 



With kind regards. 



Sincerely yours, 



SanIuel 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. CORRIGAN, M. D. 



St. Leo, Florida. 



