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“Nearly 150 pounds of seeds and several bushels of acorns 
from which at least half a million tree seedlings are expected, 
will be planted during the next two months in the arboretum of 
Letchworth Park, on the Genesee, in Wyoming County, the thou- 
sand-acre estate bequeathed to the people of the state by the 
late William Pryor Letchworth. The seeds include sixteen varie- 
ties of pine, half a dozen each of spruce, birch and ash, the mul- 
berry, sweet gum, sour gum, larch, witchhazel, holly, juniper, 
American elm, slippery elm, button-ball, haw, yew, hickory, hack- 
berry, maples, hemlocks, and others of the best known North 
American varieties, English walnuts, Japanese hemlock and 
gingko, and fourteen varieties of oaks.” 
The commencement address before the graduating class of the 
Glenwood Road School (P.S. No. 152), Brooklyn, was given 
by Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw, of the Garden staff, on June 29, 1915. 
It was this school that won the trophy for the best children’s 
sarden exhibit at the Botanic Garden last September. 
A recent press bulletin issued by the New York State l*orestry 
Association contains the following items: 
‘Ne ork leads all the other states in the Union in lumber 
consumption, with a total annual bill for timber of all kinds of 
over $100,000,000. Enough wood is used annually in the indus- 
tries of the State to make a board walk 1000 feet wide and one inch 
thick from Syracuse along the New York Central to New York 
City and part way back. 
“Tn the United States as a whole four-fifths of the standing tim- 
ber is privately owned, and one-fifth is owned by various States 
and the Federal Government. New York owns one-fifth of the 
forest land of the State and one fourth of the standing timber. 
Owing to a clause in the Constitution, this timber cannot be cut 
even though it is dying or dead and a menace to healthy timber 
about it. The State should allow careful cutting of mature timber 
in me Adirondacks. 
w York manufactures more pulp paper than any other 
eee consuming over 1,000,000 cords of wood per annum. 
Maine, its nearest competitor, is surpassed by over 100,000 cords. 
“With over 6,000,000,000 bd. ft. of timber growing on the 
