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. Underhill 



John E. Rhodes 

 S. N. Spring 



November 1916. Vol. 22 



CONTENTS 



No. 275 



The Red Gum Cover Picture. 



The Red Gum Identification and Characteristics By Samuel 



B. Detwiler 641 



With six illustrations. 



Commercial Uses of Red Gum 644 



With six illustrations. 



A "Tear-Down" Campaign 647 



Trees in Medicine By John Foote, M. D 648 



With nine illustrations. 



Conservation of American Wild Flowers By R. W. Shufeldt 

 M. D ' 654 



With five illustrations. 



Philippine Island Timber By Arthur F. Fischer 658 



McAlester's Lone Pine 658 



With one illustration. 



National Highways in Florida By Mrs. Kirk Munroe 659 



With three illustrations. 



Schools and Camps in Forests 660 



The Tree That Owns Itself By T. H. McHatton 661 



With one illustration. 



Urges Hunters To Be Careful 661 



White Pines Threatened by Destructive Disease 662 



Safety First in Tree Planting By Perley Spaulding and Carl 



Hartley 664 



With nine illustrations. 



The Bird Department By A. A. Allen 669 



What is a Game Bird ? 

 The Blackbirds and Orioles. 

 With nine illustrations. 



Parent Navel Orange Tree 674 



With one illustration. 



Desolation of Forested Area in the War Zone 675 



With one illustration. 



Forestry for Boys and Girls By Bristow Adams 676 



Chestnuts and An Old Story. 



Rock Profile of Washington 678 



With one illustration. 



The Peak of Mount Russell By Mark Daniels 679 



With one illustration. 



Ornamental and Shade Trees By J. J. Levison 680 



What We Can Do For Our Trees in Winter. 

 Landscape Forestry. 

 With two illustrations. 



Across The High Sierras By Mark Daniels 684 



With one illustration. 



Do Ants Kill Trees About Their Colonies? By R. C. Haw- 

 ley and S. J. Record 685 



With four illustrations. 



A New Method of Germinating Acorns for Forest Planting 



By John W. Harshberger 687 



With one illustration. 



Fuel Value of Wood 688 



Editorial 689 



The Town Forest. 



The Protection of Big Game. 



Indiana's Need A Trained State Forester. 



Teachers Commend American Forestry 691 



The Canadian Department By Ellwood Wilson 692 



Current Literature 693 



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