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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



April 1918 Vol. 24 



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CONTENTS 



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RAINIER, THE SNOW QUEEN, REFLECTED IN 

 MIRROR LAKE, RAINIER NATIONAL PARK. 



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Entered as second-class mail matter December 24, 1909, at the 

 Post-office at Washington, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copy- 

 riht. 1918, by the American Forestry Association. 



"Keep the Food Coming" By Charles Lathrop Pack. 

 With six illustrations. 



195 



Donations to the Welfare Fund for Lumbermen and Foresters in 

 War Service 200 



France at War By Roderic M. Olzendam. 

 With one illustration. 



201 



Dwellers in the Free Forest Forced to Flee Before the German Guns 204 



Indian Medicines Made from Trees By Hu Maxwel 

 With thirteen illustrations. 



205 



Maryland Forestry Association 211 



The Fall of Rhode Island's Monarch Pine. 

 With one illustration. 



212 



A Square Mile of Land for the Asking By Will C. Barnes 213 



With five illustrations. 



The Providence of Some Pioneers By Avis G. Vestal 218 



With one illustration. 



Tree on Stilts 218 



With one illustration. 



The Owls By A. A. Allen 



With eleven illustrations. 



219 



The Much Despised Skunk Cabbage Earliest of Spring Flowers 



By R. W. Shufeldt 225 



With twelve illustrations. 



The Smyrna Fig By H. E. Zimmerman 



With one illustration. 



The Roads of Our Lives By Smith Riley. 

 With seven illustrations. 



A Wood-Bee Remedy By Bristow Adams. 



The Forest Products of Costa Rica By C. D. Mell. 

 With twelve illustrations. 



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Prohibition of Importation of Nursery Stock 241 



Forestry Notes and Comments 242 



American Foresters in Military Service (Roster) 243 



Current Literature 



Book Review 



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