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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



of a garden will come true if you start planning right 

 now. First you should let us send with our compliments, 

 our new booklet, 



"A Feast of Flowers" 



Which tells about many plants that excel even the 

 fantasies of your dreams. 



Then tell us how we can further assist you. If 

 necessary, our whole organization will concentrate 

 to help you achieve your garden ideal. 





BMBE 



Hicks Nurseries 



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 West bury, L. I., New York 



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Orchids 



We are specialists in 

 Orchids; we collect, im- 

 port, grow, tell and export this class oi 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 Grower! and Importers SUMMIT, N. J. 



FORESTRY SEEDS 



Send for my catalogue containing 

 full list of varieties and prices 



Thomas J. Lane, Seedsman 

 Dresher Pennsylvania 



TREES FOR FOREST PLANTING 



PINE :-: SPRUCE 



CONIFERS ONLY 



Write us for price list 



KEENE FORESTRY ASSOCIATION, 



KEENE, N. H. 



Wanted: Red pine seed, white pine seed 



and white spruce seed. 



DEPLETION OF OUR FOREST 

 SUPPLIES 



'"PHE species of timber which form the 

 bulk of our export trade, except Doug- 

 las fir, are those of which the supplies are 

 most depleted. Thus, southern yellow pine 

 forms half of our entire export trade, 

 and the available supply is only 222 bil- 

 lion feet. At the present annual cut of 

 saw-log size timber of nearly 17 billion 

 board feet there remains only about 14 

 years' cut of the original supplies. 



That these figures are not a mere theo- 

 retical calculation is proved by an official 

 statement recently issued by the Southern 

 Pine Association regarding the life of the 

 southern pine industry. The Southern 

 Pine Association estimates that 81.6 per 

 cent of the mills will cut out their sup- 

 plies in 5 years, 95.3 per cent in 10 years, 

 and 99 per cent in 15 years. 



JOHN C. OLMSTEAD DEAD 

 JOHN CHARLES OLMSTEAD, noted 

 J landscape architect and for many years 

 a member of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, died at his home at Brookline, 

 Massachusetts, on February 24th. Mr. Olm- 

 stead was long associated with his step- 

 father, the late Frederick Law Olmstead, in 

 business and his work included the archi- 

 tectural planning of grounds for universi- 

 ties, colleges, schools, capitol buildings, 

 public libraries, public parks and extensive 

 private estates. His career in his profes- 

 sion is marked by work in Boston, Cam- 

 bridge and vicinity, New York, Buffalo, 

 Rochester, Chicago, Milwaukee, Seattle, 

 Spokane, Louisville; Hartford, Conn.; Fall 

 River, New Orleans and elsewhere in the 

 South. Mr. Olmstead was a member of 

 many civic and scientific organizations, 

 having formerly been president of the 

 American Society of Landscape Architects, 

 and his loss will be keenly felt by his 

 confreres. 



VOLUNTEER FOREST FIRE 

 REPORTERS 



A NEW call has been issued- for volun- 

 teers not for military duty, but for 

 the important task of reporting forest fires 

 in the Southern States. The Forest Serv- 

 ice of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture compiles reports regarding 

 forest fires throughout the country which 

 are invaluable to the conservation move- 

 ment, and is in need of additional co- 

 operators in the South, in order that it 

 may have complete information regard- 

 ing the frequency of fires in this region 

 and the extent of their damage. In the 

 North and West similar data are obtain- 

 able from State forestry officials, but in 

 the South it is necessary to rely upon 

 volunteer reporters. Already several 

 hundred persons are co-operating with the 

 Forest Service in this, but it is desired 

 so to enlarge the force that much more 

 complete information may be secured. 

 Consequently the service desires to get in 

 touch with any person in the Southern 

 States who will be willing to assist in 

 supplying this information. The duties 

 of a co-operator do not require much time, 

 the work consisting in making out an an- 

 nual report as to the number of fires, 

 their causes, the extent of the damage, 

 character of the damage, and so on. 



The seriousness of the forest fire men- 

 ace in the South is shown by the follow- 

 ing figures : In each of the past three 

 years nearly 12,000 forest fires destroyed 

 property in North Carolina, South Caro- 

 lina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mis- 

 sissippi, valued at nearly $5,000,000; the 

 total for the three years was 35,700 fires 



