208 THE TREE DOCTOR 



saw-mill and profanity of the average woodsman. To-day, for 

 a radius of fifty miles, I do not know of that many acres of un- 

 broken native forests all told. If a person, not acquainted with 

 the real condition, were to drive through this region, he would 

 suppose there were thousands upon thousands of acres ; espec- 

 ially would he form the opinion in the summer and fall months 



Photo 193 

 A Model Entrance Drive. 



when the trees are in foliage. These are "culls" left, that the 

 lumber men had no use for, and I suppose they are entered as 

 "woodlands." I am traveling most of the time and have ridden 

 on nearly all the railroads in Ohio, and I am safe in saying that, 

 in this State, there is not one-tenth, and probably not a hun- 

 dredth part of the timber in existence that there is supposed to 

 be. What people imagine to be "woods," containing valuable 

 timber, are nothing but "groves," with the "saw-timber" cut out 



