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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 

 EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



Herman H. Chapman 

 Ernest A. Sterling 



S. T. Dana 



Frederick S. Undbrhill 



John E. Rhodes 

 S. N. Spring 



February, 1916. Vol. 22 



CONTENTS 



No. 266 



The Douglas Fir Cover Picture. Copyrighted by Darius Kinsey . 



The Douglas Fir Identification and Characteristics By S. B. 



Detwiler 67 



With three illustrations. 



Commercial Uses of Douglas Fir By J. S. Williams 69 



With ten illustrations. 



In a Washington Forest Poem by Donald A. Fraser 75 



The Tree of Legend and Romance By Mark Daniels 76 



With nine illustrations. 



The Bird Department By A. A. Allen, Ph. D 82 



With ten illustrations. 



Control of Larch Mistletoe 85 



The Association's New President 86 



With one photograph. 



The Children's Department By Bristow Adams 90 



With two drawings. 



Tower Falls of the Yellowstone 91 



Wood Older Than the Hills By Arthur Koehler 92 



With three illustrations. 



The Cowled Monk 93 



Kentucky's Forestry Building 93 



Lecturing in Chekiang By D. Y. Lin 94 



With one illustration. 



Farewell, Old Tree Poem by Pauline Brandreth 96 



The White Pine Blister Rust 97 



Nut-Growing, A New American Industry By William C. 99/ 

 Deming. 



With nine illustrations. 



Wood Preserving Department By O. P. M. Goss 105 



With two illustrations. 



Ornamental and Shade Trees By William W. Colton, B. S.. . 107 

 With four illustrations. 



Editorial: Public Playgrounds Threatened \\2 



The Weeks Law Hearing 112 



War's Effect on Trees By F. McVickar 113 



Society of American Foresters Meeting 1 14 



The Annual Meeting 1 15 



Conservation at the Second Pan-American Scientific Congress, 117 



Canadian Department By Ell wood Wilson 120 



Current Literature 121 



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