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| AMERICAN FORESTRY | 



THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION I 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



January 1918 Vol. 24 



CONTENTS 



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No. 289 



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Man-Made Playgrounds By C. J. Blanchard 5 



With nine illustrations. 



In God's Cathedral Poem by Donald A. Fraser. 

 With one illustration. 



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Biggest Regiment Becomes Bigger 13 



With twenty-four photographs. 



Forests Indispensable in War By J. W. Tourney 

 With five illustrations. 



The Cuckoos By A. A. Allen 



With eight illustrations. 



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A National Forest Timber Sale and Its Purposes By H. H. Chapman. 25 

 With six illustrations. 



War On Gunners By Alfred Gaskill 28 



Studies of Leaf and Tree (Part I) By R. W. Shufeldt 29 



With fifteen illustration? 



Forestry for Boys and Girls Paying for Pine Trees By Bristow 



Adams 36 



Controlling Snow by Tree Planting By W. C. Palmer 38 



With six illustrations. 



Selecting Trees for Shelter, Shade and Show By Henry R. Francis. . 41 

 With thirteen illustrations. 



Louisiana '8 Forestry Superintendent 46 



With one photograph. 



Pennsylvania's Forestry Soldiers 46 



Navy Department Needs Glasses 46 



The Year With the Forest Service 47 



Armenia As Seen by an American Forester 48 



Buttrick's New Assignment 49 



Tree Surgeon Saves Lemon Tree 49 



With one illustration. 



Forestry Notes and Comments 50 



American Foresters In Military Service (Roster) 52 



Editorial: 



The War and the White Pine Blister Rust 55 



Donations to Forest Regiment Fund 56 



When You Build Your House By Rawson W. Haddon 57 



With four illustrations. 



Canadian Department By Ell wood Wilson 58 



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Current Literature 



THE ROYAL PALM. 



The Palm is a Royal (oreodoxa regia) growing in the Soar Nurse- 

 ries, at Little River, Fla. F. J. McKinley, of Miami, Fla., who sent 

 the photograph to American Forestry, says he believes it is the 

 handsomest specimen of the Royal Palm in the United States. The 

 seed from which this tree grew was shot down with a rifle from the 

 parent tree, near Cape Sable, Fla. The tree is twenty-two years old 

 and sixty-two feefhigh. 



