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any great extent. The remeasurements also indicate that the growth 

 of the tree is not appreciably checked by severe logging damage to the 

 base, while if a portion of the crown is injured growth slows up very 

 appreciably. Trees with wide, long, and pointed crowns make much 

 more rapid growth than those with any other character of top. 



In a well-illustrated article of the New York Paper Trade Journal 

 Julian Rothery points out that forests, vast as they are, are not un- 

 bounded, and that the amount of pulp- wood available in this country 

 and Canada which will permit of manufacture of reasonably cheap 

 paper is not bottomless. He gives some interesting facts about what 

 one paper firm has done in the way of reforestation and how its nur- 

 series are conducted. To quote Mr. Rothery : 



"The Pejepscot Paper Company is one of the old established manufacturers, 

 with mills on the lower Androscoggin River in Maine and extensive timber 

 lands both in Maine and Canada. It was also among the foremost to embark 

 on a far-sighted policy of conservation, and its New Brunswick holdings con- 

 stitute the finest spruce forest the writer has ever seen and probably the finest 

 in eastern America. Due to careful methods of cutting, there is more timber 

 upon the lands today than when operations were commenced many years ago. 

 But it is the reforesting of the barren or open lands where conservation is the 

 most direct and aggressive. The Pejepscot Paper Company established nurseries 

 at several places in its woodland properties. 



"Thousands of these young trees have been set out in the old pastures and 

 clearings and are slowly filling up gaps in the woodland cover. The cost is not 

 heavy; the returns, both direct and indirect, are sufficient to make it an object 

 to continue the work each year until now, when the open areas of their large 

 Canadian properties are nearly all restocked with valuable growing trees. They 

 find planting is educational as well as practical, tending to promote care of the 

 forest and impress upon observers the value of trees and forest cover." 



Although it is not likely that the forest, which is now ex])ected to 

 eke out the coming coal shortage, will also contribute nmch toward 

 staving ofi^ the food shortage, a short note on forest trees with edible 

 fruits in Forest Leaves is of interest and at least suggestive. 



Of first im])ortance are, of course, the various nuts — walnut, hulter- 

 nut, chestnut and chinquapin, hazelnut and hickorv (pecan), as well as 

 l)eeclinut. the latter to furnish a substitute for oli\e oil. 0{ acorns, 

 the white oaks are sweet enough to eat. but the black-oak acorns can 

 be made fit l)y pulping and leaching them with hot water. The same 

 treatment will make the horse-chestniUs useful for fiour. Persimiuon, 

 pawpaw, and w ih! pluni> and cherries nuist be wc-11 ripened before los- 



