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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



August 1918 Vol. 24 



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CONTENTS 



No. 296 



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IN THE FLATHEAD NATIONAL FOREST. 



quiet beauty of this spot at the west end of Stan- 

 ton Lake in Montana, makes strong appeal. 

 Heavy timber surrounds the lake. 



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The White Pines By Agnes L. Scott Frontispiece 



Battling the Pine Blister Rust By S. B. Detwiler 451 



With five illustrations. 



The Time to Cut Walnut 457 



Barracks A. R. C. American Red Cross By P. L. Buttrick 458 



With six illustrations. 



The Hun of Plant Life 463 



With one illustration. 



Trees for the Dead 463 



Put the Sun to Work By Charles Lathrop Pack 464 



With six illustrations. 



A Two-Million Dollar Garden Plot in New York City 470 



With one illustration. 



Shade Poem by Theodosia Garrison (Reprinted from Everybody's) 470 



War Demands Threaten Historic Forest of Fontainebleu 471 



With one illustration. 



A Letter From the Chaplain of the Tenth 472 



Donations to the Welfare Fund for Lumbermen and Foresters in 

 War Service 472 



The Uses of Wood The Place of the Wooden Roof in Civilization 



By Hu Maxwell 473 



With thirteen illustrations. 



Black Walnut From the Guggenheim Estate Offered to the Government 482 



Tuscania Survivors Reunited Abroad 483 



With one illustration. 



A Girl Who Guards the Forests From Fire 484 



With one illustration. 



The Fire Wall of Wood 485 



With two illustrations. 



An Army "Parson" in France 486 



With two illustrations. 



Trees for the Holy Land 488 



A Letter From the Front 488 



Midsummer Flower-Hunts By R. W. Shufeldt 489 



With ten illustrations. 



Kaiser Bought Walnut for War Ten Years Ago 496 



News Print Paper From Sawdust 496 



Gift of Road to Delaware 4 % 



Upland Game Birds The Grouse By A. A. Allen 497 



With six illustrations. 



Lieut. Douglass Missing 501 



With one illustration. 



American Trees for Japan 5(il 



Canadian Department By Ellwood Wilson 502 



Current Literature 503 



Entered as, econd-cias, .mail matter December . ^. g ^ /o^ffic^a^ Wash^ 



A^iit^A^^^AinT't S^i 1 P Stage Pr Vided f r ^ 

 Sec. 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized July 11, 1918. 



