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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



THE FORMAL DIGNITY AND BEAUTIFUL COLOR OF THE 



Colorado Blue Spruce 





makes it one of the most desirable 

 evergreens for general planting. It 

 can stand any exposure and is one 

 of the few evergreens that does 

 well at the sea shore. This tree 

 is becoming very popular when 

 planted among other ever- 

 greens where its striking 

 color forms a pleasing con- 

 trast. 



Col. Blue Spruce 

 Hemlocks 

 Austrian Pine 

 Arborvitae 



6 to 19 ft. 

 10 to 16 ft. 

 10 to 21 ft. 



6 to 11 ft. 



Send for our cata- 

 logue which contains 

 considerable informa- 

 tion in regard to Plant- 

 ing The Right Tree in 

 ' The Right Place. We 

 would be glad to fur- 

 nish you with any in- 

 foimation at our com- 

 mand concerning silvi- 

 culture. 



NURSERY 



New York City Office, 103 Park Avenue 



Telephone: VANDERBILT 1691 



Amawalk, Westchester Co., New York 



Telephone: YORKTOWN US 



TREE SEEDS 



Large collection of Evergreen, Tree, Shrub 

 and Hardy Perennial Seeds from all 

 parts of the world. 



Send for Catalogue. 



CONYERS B. FLEU, Jr. 



6S2I 34-32 Ross Street 



GERMANTOWN - PHILADELPHIA 



Orchids 



We are specialists in 

 Orchids; we collect, im- 

 port, grow, tell and export this class of plants 

 exclusively 



Our illustrated and descriptive catalogue of 

 Orchids may be had on application. Also spe- 

 cial list of freshly imported unestablished 

 Orchids 



LAGER & HURRELL 



Orchid Growers and Importers SUMMIT, N. J. 



EVERGREEN SEEDLINGS 



We are equipped to grow EVERGREEN 

 SEEDLINGS in million lots on contract, for 

 REFORESTING PROJECTS. All standard 

 varieties grown by experts. We save you 

 money. Write for information. 



THE D. HILL NURSERY CO., INC. 



Evergreen Specialists Largest 



Growers in America. 



Box 501 Dundee, Illinois, U. S. A. 



Selected beautiful species of small and 

 large Evergreens, Deciduous trees, Fruit 

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Brighten your home with Beautiful 

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Send for prices. 



HASELBARTH TREE CO., 



New Rochelle, N. Y. 



PLANT JAPANESE WALNUT 

 THE Japanese walnut offers possibilities 



for landowners who are seeking to 

 plant nut trees for shade or other purposes, 

 say specialists of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. It is nearly as hardy 

 as the black walnut and is by no means 

 uncommon in Northern and Eastern States, 

 where it is especially appropriate for farm 

 and door-yard planting. For the present, 

 seedling trees will have to be relied upon 

 almost entirely, as very few budded or 

 grafted trees are available. 



This nut has been confused with the 

 Persian or so-called English walnut, al- 

 though the two are quite unlike. The Jap- 

 anese is a dwarfish species, with dull green 

 rough leaflets, often as many as 15 or 17 to 

 the leaf, and bears nuts in racemes of a 

 dozen or more. 



The shells are thinner than those of the 

 black walnut, but thicker than those of the 

 Persian walnuts. The flavor of the kernels 

 is much like that of the American butternut. 



INSECTS ATTACK WESTERN PINE 



OF the 10,700,000 feet of yellow pine in 

 private ownership in Klamath and Lake 

 Counties, Oregon, fully 8 per cent has been 

 killed during the past five or six years, or 

 is now infested by beetles, says the Forest 

 Entomologist of the Oregon Experiment 

 Station. The average annual loss has been 

 about 150 million board feet, worth at least 

 $250,000, or 300 times as much as the aver- 

 age annual fire loss in the two counties. 



The principal enemy in the western pine 

 forests is the western pine dark brown 

 beetle which bores through the bark of the 

 tree and excavates long, winding galleries 

 in the soft formative tissue next to the 

 bark. The effect of these hundreds of in- 

 sect galleries is to girdle the tree, thus 

 cutting off its supply of food and water, 

 and causing death. When the beetles be- 

 come abundant and kill large numbers of 

 trees, the infestation is known as an epi- 

 demic. These epidemic infestations usu- 

 ally run in cycles of from four to six years. 

 The amount of timber killed on a given 

 area while the insects are passing through 

 this cycle may be as low as 6 per cent or 

 as high as 80 per cent 



PLANT CHESTNUT TREES 

 TT/IFTEEN years ago an Illinois farmer 

 selected a piece of steep hillside land, 

 unsuitable for regular cultivation, and set 

 out a grove of young chestnut trees. The 

 trees are now giving him as good an in- 

 come as some farming land, and practically 

 without attention. Chestnut blight, which 

 has destroyed most of the native chestnut 

 trees in the East, has not yet done material 

 damage to chestnut land plantings west of 

 the natural distribution of the American 

 chestnut. Blight resistant varieties are 

 now being developed by the United States 

 Department of Agriculture and by associa- 

 tions of nut growers. 



