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The above is a group picture of tlie forty-two students in attendance at the 

 Woods Camp of Yale Forest School at Trinity, Texas, during the spring of 1911. 

 This picture, which has been lent by the Snvthern Lumberman of Nashville, Ten- 

 nessee, is of special interest to Canadians in that the tall student in the centre of 

 the back row is Mr. T. W. Dwight, a graduate of the Faculty of Forestry of the 

 University of Toronto, who took a year's graduate course at Yale. Mr. Dwight is 

 now on the staff of the Dominion Forestry Branch, and during the past season has 

 been located on the eastern slope of the Koeky Mountains where he is making a 

 study of the conditions of reproduction in that region. 



(Concluded from page 131.) 

 The pine, ash, cedar and butternut 

 will also require their generations, 

 and the world will see many changes 

 before the work I have been doing 

 is undone again by the axe of the 

 lumberman. In looking at the work 

 in this w^ay, and in feeling that with 

 these trees I am uniting myself with 

 a future age, I am getting a return 

 that is not to be entirely despised. 

 Men do many things to make their 

 work live, but I doubt if many do 

 anything more certain to achieve 

 that result than planting trees. A 

 man may write a book that will 

 'walk the town awhile, numbering 

 good wits,' but it will not be macy 

 years before it is as dead as the book 

 about which Milton wrote that line. 

 You may write a song, speak an ora- 

 tion, put a new law on the statute 

 book, but they will all be forgotten 

 before a tree that is planted to-day 



has reached its growth. As a mat- 

 ter of fact I am not afraid to en- 

 ter my trees against any thousand 

 and eighty books that will fall from 

 the presses this year. It will be 

 strange if the trees do not outlive 

 them all. They will also probably 

 outlast the fame of any thousand 

 and eighty statesmen, financiers and 

 much-admired public men. Before 

 their term is fulfilled Canada may be 

 the true seat of Empire, or our civi- 

 lization may have gone down before 

 the yellow races. It is vain to spec- 

 ulate what may happen before those 

 trees arrive at maturity. Anything 

 may happen. It is even possible that 

 some future owner of the land where 

 they are planted will clear them off 

 or turn the cows to pasture among 

 them. After all, their fate depends 

 on others who are unborn. Still, I 

 have done my share. 



