ARBORICULTURE. 



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Government, seeding the bare spots with 

 trees suited to the locality. 



All the interests of this Nation demand 

 the perpetuation of the remaining forests, 

 agriculture, the mines, navigation, com- 

 merce, the builders' trades, all will require 

 timber twenty, fifty and a hundred year'; 

 hence as urgently as we of the present 

 generation, and the greed of the lumber 

 operators must not be permitted to devas- 

 tate the forests which are still owned by 

 the Government. 



ARTHUR COWEi: 



(BlaMolus Specialist 



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I have not given your book the examination 

 that it deserves. Its value appears to me to be 

 in that it is a study of one of our forest trees 

 from a sylvicultural standpoint. That is where 

 we are weakest. Our forest trees have never 

 been studied from the point of view of arti- 

 ficial reproduction, nor have the conditions and 

 laws governing their growth been worked out, 

 that is carefully observed and noted down. All 

 we have done so far is to try certain rules that 

 have been in use in Europe. Now, if some one 

 will do for our other trees what you have done 

 for Catalpa speciosa, we shall have progressed 

 on sure and certain ground. The family that 

 interests me most is the birches of New Eng- 

 land. When I have studied the birch more, I 

 intend to try to write something about them 

 that will be an addition to our knowledge of 

 American sylviculture, I hope. 



I do not know whether you ever saw the 

 article on the Lumber Trust or not. I have 

 written another, in which I individually treat 

 the same subject, and sent it to The New York 

 Sun. Whether The Sun will publish it or not 

 I do not know. But if it does, I shall see that 

 a copy reaches you. So long as the "Lumber 

 Trust" controls the national and State forest 

 jobbing, we shall not advance one step, and 

 practically all that the Government is now 

 doing is so much money wasted and so much 

 energy misdirected. 



Yours truly, 

 (Signed) Thomas P. Ivy. 

 Hendersonvii.lE, N. C. 



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