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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



FORESTRY SEEDS 



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 full list of varieties and prices 



THOMAS J. LANE 



Seedsman 



DRESHER 



PENNSYLVANIA 



Nursery Stock for Forest Planting 

 TREE SEEDS 



SEEDLINGS uv, /, ,. on TRANSPLANTS 



large quantities 



THE NORTHEASTERN FORESTRY CO. 

 CHESHIRE, CONN. 



THE TIMBER SUPPLY AND WHAT 

 TO DO ABOUT IT 



(Continued from page 70) 

 a region where public opinion is not yet 

 wholly convinced that adequate measures 

 should be taken to prevent and suppress 

 fires. 



Recognition of the facts of timber de- 

 pletion and idle lands suited to the pro- 

 duction of timber, is hastened by the pinch 

 of actual timber shortage which is handi- 

 capping the industrial life of the region. 

 Woodpulp is soaring in price, and it can 

 not always be had. The oak for Grand 

 Rapids furniture is being cut in Louisiana 

 and Tennessee. The hickory for the 

 wheels of Michigan automobiles is shipped 

 from Arkansas and Mississippi. Michigan 

 does not even supply itself with enough 

 telephone poles and railroad ties, but pays 

 freight on poles from Idaho and ties from 

 Virginia. 



This has happened in the State of Michi- 

 gan, which for over twenty years pro- 

 duced more lumber than any other state 

 and which, as late as 1899, held second 

 place in total cut of lumber. 



If, as in Ohio, the removal of forests 

 had been regularly followed by agriculture, 

 there would be little cause for regret. But 

 this has not been true of Michigan. Out 

 of the 36 million land acres of the state, 

 18 million are reported as included in farms 

 with less than one-half of this area culti- 

 vated. Of the remaining 18 million acres 

 not included in farms, at least 10 million 



Selected beautiful species of small and 

 large Evergreens, Deciduous trees, Fruit 

 trees, Shrubs and all other Nursery stock 

 at money-saving prices. 



Brighten your home with Beautiful 

 Dwarf Evergreens. 



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HASELBARTH TREE CO., 



New Rochelle, N. Y. 



Old Friends and New 



is a catalogue of 

 helpful ways of ar- 

 ranging plants to 

 express your ideas. 

 It illustrates in col- 

 or some of Long 

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 by foremost land- 

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 Olmsted Bros., 

 Brookline, Mass., 

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 S h i p m a n, New 

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Hicks Nurseries 



Hicks Nurseries are ready to help you with plants that 

 will immediately make your landscape what you want it 

 to be. Shade trees and evergreens 25 feet high shipped 1000 

 miles and satisfactory growth guaranteed. They save you 

 15 years. Hundreds of carloads of these time-saving trees 

 have been shipped; they are economical in time and money. 

 Time-saving fruit trees three years older than_ usual have been 

 transplanted and pruned for good results in your orchard. 



A group of Evergreens to shut out the busy street, or form a 

 background for the flower garden and separate it from the 

 service court, is one of the things Hicks Nurseries can sup- 

 ply you to perfection. Here are thousands of evergreens, 

 root-pruned, transplanted wide apart and pruned to uniform 

 shape^ and dug with big solid balls of earth held by plat- 

 forms and canvas. 



New and rare trees, shrubs and flowers from the Arnold 

 Arboretum, Highland Park, Rochester and elsewhere will 

 delight garden lovers. 



Cover plants to creep over the ground and give pleasure 

 with berries and evergreen foliage are a new feature of the 

 Hicks Nurseries. Azaleas, red flowering Dogwood, Canadian 

 Yew, Silver Bell and many other plants are suitable for 

 decorating the woodland. 



Pruned lindens and hornbeams for pleached alleys are 

 just the thing for entrance court or terrace. For seashore 

 or dry, acid hills, Hicks Nurseries have large trees and 

 also small trees at low rates You are entitled to the best 

 and the newest plants approved by garden experts and 

 landscape architects. You will find such plants at Hicks 

 Nurseries. 



Box F Westbury, L. I., New York 



are believed to be permanently unsuited 

 for agriculture and chiefly valuable for 

 timber production. The state pays a 

 freight bill of around $2,000,000 annually 

 for imported lumber which, with the excep- 

 tion of certain special classes of material, 

 might be grown on this 10 million acres 

 of waste which is reverting to the state 

 for non-payment of taxes at the rate of 

 3,000 acres a month. 



But Michigan, while a classic example of 

 the bad effects from misuse of forest land, 

 is not alone in her neglect to keep her 

 acres productive. Aside from the greater 

 prevalence in Michigan of a certain type 

 of sandy soil which is particularly subject 

 to damage by repeated fires, the story of 

 timber depletion and non-productive land 

 in Michigan has been or is being repeated 

 in numerous other states. The State of 

 Massachusetts, for example, contains de- 

 nuded forest lands within a stone's throw 

 of her dense population and highly develop- 

 ed industries which have been estimated 

 at a total of one million acres, and which 

 are largely idle so far as growing wood 

 of economic value is concerned. In its 

 report on a Senate resolution introduced 

 by Senator Arthur Capper, the National 

 Forest Service states: 



"Three-fifths of our primeval forests 

 are gone; the timber remaining is bei- 

 consumed four times faster than it is be- 

 ing replaced. With the successive exhaus- 

 tion of our principal forest regions in the . 

 northeastern states, the Alleghenies, the 

 Lake States and the Atlantic seaboard, 

 and the imminent exhaustion of the Gulf 

 States pineries, the cost of transporting 

 forest products to the average consumer 

 is steadily rising. 



"The effeots of forest depletion include 

 all the elements of higher freight costs, 

 more restrictive competition, dependence 

 upon the efficiency of transportation, de 

 pendence upon climatic or labor conditions 

 in restricted regions, and innumerable dif- 

 ficulties in getting needed materials of the 

 right kind and at the right time. If all 

 the timber in the United States were cut 

 and our needs supplied by imports from 

 South America and Siberia, the situation 

 would differ from that which we are now 

 rapidly approaching only in degree. The 

 effect of original timber exhaustion may be 

 compared with what would happen if the 

 orchards and truck farms in the eastern 

 and central states disappeared and the 

 housewife had to obtain the daily necessi- ' 

 ties for her table from Florida and Cali-8 

 fornia. 



"The kernel of the problem lies in the I 

 enormous areas of forest land which are 

 not producing the timber crops that they 

 should. There are 326 million acres of 

 cut-over timber lands in the United States. 

 Their condition ranges from complete de- 

 vastation through various stages of partial 

 restocking, or restocking with trees of in- \ 

 ferior quality to limited areas which are 

 producing timber at or near their full 



