20 AMERICAN FORESTRY 



PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIW 



FAMOUS LATIMER ELM DESTROYED 



AT the ditch over against Balliol College" Hugh 

 Latimer, of England, was burned at the stake 

 361 years ago, according to the books of reference 

 which tell the facts in connection with the martyr's death 

 in terse terms, and what a story the old elm, under which 

 he preached, might tell could it but talk ! 



The tree became famous after his arrest and death, and 

 has been known as "Latimer's Elm" all these years. It 

 was shattered in a recent storm in Hadley Wood, England. 

 Latimer who rose from priest to Bishop of Worcester, was 

 in and out of favor at court and finally lost his life at the 

 stake in the whirling maelstrom following the Reformation 

 in which Cromwell upset England. 



Latimer was born about 1485 at Thurcaston and was 

 graduated B. A. at Cambridge in 1510. He gained the 

 favor of Cromwell and obtained the benefice of West 

 Kington. In January 1532 he was cited to appear before 

 the Bishop of London on a charge of heresy. It was then 



Copyright, Topical Press Agency. 



This tree, known as "Latimer's Elm." was shattered during a recent storm in Hadley Wood, England. It was under this tree the martyr, Hugh 

 Latimer, was preaching when he received his death warrant. The photograph also shows all that remains of the old landmark. 



his following became tremendous, for human nature 

 it would seem was much the same then as now and 

 the public fancy turned to one who was being per- 

 secuted. Latimer recanted in April and as a reward 

 he was made a royal chaplain in 1534 and Bishop 

 of Worcester in the following year. 



Things ran smoothly for him for four years when 

 he resigned, according to information given out by 

 the crown, on account of his opposition to the Act of 



Six Articles, but Latimer insisted it was at the re- 

 quest of the king. 



During the reign of Edward VI, Latimer regained 

 his favor at court and identified himself more closely 

 with the Reformation. This proved his undoing, 

 and with the accession of Mary he was arrested 

 and sent to the Tower. This was in March, 

 1553, and on October 16, 1555, he was burned 

 at the stake. 



PORTO RICO consumes three times as much wood 

 annually as the forests of the island produce, declares 

 Louis S. Murphy, of the Government Forest Service, 

 in a bulletin on the insular forests. He says in a commercial 

 sense, from the logging stand-point the forests of the 

 island are insignificant, and are being constantly depleted 

 by the burning of charcoal, the native fuel. 



SO popular was the farm bulletin of National Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association on the preservative treat- 

 ment of farm timbers, that it has been necessary to 

 issue a second edition, which points out that decay 

 timber is a disease, caused by infection, and preventable 

 by proper use of creosote. 



THE pork packers who boast that they use all of the 

 pig but the squeal have close rivals in several of 

 Pennsylvania's State Forests, where the foresters 

 are using all of the tree but the roots and leaves. This 

 close utilization is practiced in the distillation of birch oil, 

 an old Pennsylvania industry which has been revived " on 

 account of the war." 



NORTH CAROLINA has started a campaign to edu- 

 cate school children in forest work and methods, by 

 holding annual contests among the schools. The 

 competition is for exhibits of leaves, fruits, flowers, seed 

 and wood of native trees and shrubs. 



