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graduates, most of them postgraduates, of the foremost forest schools 

 of the country. Aside from the ignorance displayed on the part of 

 the authors of fundamental things in botany, such statements as these 

 must be misleading and confusing to the lay reader, to say the least. 

 From a professional standpoint, in the infancy period of "i\merican 

 forestry" these errors are deplorable. In the eyes of European for- 

 esters it might make American foresters appear in rather a bad light ; 

 also, should European foresters judge our forestry practice by some 

 of the statements in our forestry literature, it would be greatly to our 

 disadvantage. Last, but not least, is the fact that these errors and 

 ones like them make a healthy and sane development of scientific for- 

 estry impossible, to say nothing of the development of research in sil- 

 vics and silviculture. The forestry superstructure of the future can- 

 not and must not be reared upon so poor a foundation. The need of 

 more and better botany in our forestry schools, I think, is very evident. 



