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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The 



Romance 



Of 



Our 



Trees 



by 



ERNEST H. 

 WILSON, 

 M. A.,V. M. H. 



yluthor oj 

 ARISTOCRAT 

 OF THE 

 GARDEN 



Tkk.ES have hgured largely in religion, in 

 mythology, in social and economic life, in 

 art indeed there i no form of human ef- 

 fort that has not been touched with the benign 

 influence of tree. 



In this volume has been assembled an extra- 

 ordinary body of facts about trees; a practical 

 book for its exposition of their uses, and a fas- 

 cinating book for its continual revelation of their 

 beauty and romance. Illustrated with beautiful 

 pictures of historic and characteristic trees. 



From a lifetime study and experience that 

 involved travels in all parts of the wiorld, the 

 author has gathered a vast body of interesting 

 and useful information about trees. Through- 

 out the aim has been not merely to provide a 

 manual, but a book that will present the romance 

 of its subject along wiih detailed and valuable 

 information. 



Beautifully illustrated from unusual photo- 

 graphs. Edition limited to 1,000 numbered 

 copies. 



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PLANTING FOR REVENUE 

 Forty years ago Charles W. Garfield 

 then Secretary of the Michigan State 

 Board of Horticulture, arranged a program 

 dealing with farm forestry which was given 

 in the opera house at Hillsdale. It was 

 provoking that an interesting program en- 

 listed little response, and Mr. Garfield said 

 to the farmers assembled, "The time will 

 come, if you maintain this attitude, that 

 you will be crying for some means to cope 

 with the coal barons, and you will have 

 lost your leverage." During the war there 

 was a coal shortage, and those charged 

 with the distribution of the inadequate 

 supply said, "It seems fair to take care 

 first of the need of townspeople. Farmers 

 should have fuel from their woodlands." 

 The coal shortage gave an impetus to farm 

 forestry. 



Several years ago the Grand Rapids 

 Board of Trade purchased lo.ooo elm trees 

 in France, which, with transportation, cost 

 only a few cents apiece, and distributed 

 them for planting on Arbor Day. In ad- 

 vance, business men spoke at all the schools 

 to give instructions for successful plant- 

 ing. About 70 per cent of the trees lived. 

 How far-reaching would be the result if 

 every one of the 150,000 population of 

 Grand Rapids would make himself re- 

 sponsible for the planting of one tree ! 

 Mr. Garfield has hope that some start may 

 be made on such a program next spring. 



Further than street planting, Grand Rap- 

 ids should establish and maintain forests 

 for future revenue. It might be necessary 

 to give the recreational value of such for- 

 ests the greater prominence at the outset 

 to enlist sufficient interest, but Mr. Gar- 

 field feels sure that as in the case of Zu- 

 rich's town forest, such a venture would 

 eventually yield revenue to the city. 



NOVEL FOREST FIRE EXHIBIT 



Ernest L. Metcalf, the forest fire warden 

 of Franklin, Massachusetts, placed a unique 

 exhibit in the Labor Day parade in his 

 town. It consi.sted of three trucks. He 

 dug up in the forest and transferred ti 

 one of these trucks a section of burned 

 land, with its burned embers and charred 

 stubs, just as it looked in the woods. To 

 heighten the eflfect, smudge fires on the 

 truck gave oflt clouds of smoke. On the 

 second truck he showed the remedy for 

 this sort of burned land reforestation, by 

 displaying young pines from four to ten 

 years old set in earth. The third truck 

 was the town forest fire apparatus, with 

 full equipment. Along the route of the 

 parade he gave out announcements of the 

 free distribution of young trees which were 

 to be given to school children for plant- 

 ing, and which were furnished by the State 

 Nursery at Bridgewater. 



