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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



There's Glory in Flowering Shrubs 



Almost any tree or shrub adds charm to the landscape. 

 Those with showy flowers add just so much more 

 beauty. Indeed, the most delightful landscapes are 

 those where flowering trees are represented. They appear like 

 the work of a master fairy on account of the masses of colors 

 which vie with each other so harmoniously throughout the 

 season. 



Think of all the rare floral gems that 

 tint the landscape and keep the at- 

 mosphere full of fragrance; there are 



many that are out of the ordinary, but 

 these six are distinctly unusual and 

 showy. The entire collection tor $5.00 

 (purchased singly, $7.00). 



Japanese Dogwood 

 Japanese Cornelian 



Cherry 

 Japanese Bellflower 



Tree 



Sliver Bell Tree 



Chinese Christmas 

 Berry 



Storax 



These and many others, equally delightful, 

 arc described and illustrated in Hick's 

 Monograph "Flowering Trees and Shrubs." 

 Colored illustrations leave in your mind no 

 room for doubt concerning results. Send 

 for your copy today. 



HICKS NURSERIES 

 Box F Westbury, L. I., If. Y. 



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Orchids 



We t are specialists in 

 Orchids; we collect, im- 

 port, grow, sell and export this class of 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 Growers and Importers SUMMIT, N. J. 



be borne by the consumers at large who 

 are the real owners of the forests and who 

 are most interested in their protection. In- 

 dividual timber holders can cut off their 

 timber, make a profit and go out of busi- 

 ness, but the public cannot see their for- 

 ests vanish. Wood we must have and the 

 forests must be handled so as to perpetuate 

 them. 



The Province of Nova Scotia has de- 

 cided to employ a Provincial Forester and 

 thus complete the proper policy for the 

 whole of the forested provinces of the 

 Dominion. 



The work of the Dominion Forestry 

 Branch at the Petawawa Forest Reserve, 

 under Mr. H. C. Wallin, in studying the 

 growth, increment and so forth of the trees 

 there will continue during the summer. 

 Some valuable results were obtained last 

 year and much is hoped from the research 

 program now under way. 



The Commission of Conservation in co- 

 operation with the Laurentide Company, 

 the Riordon Company, the Abitibi Com- 

 pany, the Province of New Brunswick and 

 the Province of Quebec, will continue their 

 research work under Dr. Howe into the 

 growth, reproduction, mortality rate, etc., 

 on cut-over pulpwood lands. The work 

 will also be extended to burnt over coun- 

 try. Plots have been laid out and treated 

 in various ways. For instance, one plot has 

 been cut clean and the debris burned in 

 piles, another cut-over and the debris al- 

 lowed to lie and the hardwood trees have 

 been girdled. On others every seedling is 



tagged and numbered and the growth will 

 be studied. An entomologist and an ex- 

 pert in fungous diseases are with the party 

 and will look after their respective fields. 

 At the Laurentide Company plantations of 

 various trees on different soils and with 

 different aspects have been made, also dif- 

 ferent mixtures of trees and mixtures of 

 dominant and suppressed trees from the 

 transplant beds. These will be measured 

 and studied from year to year. Seed selec- 

 tion is also being practiced and Scotch pine 

 of the second generation is already growing. 



A DEPARTMENT OF FOREST 



RECREATION ESTABLISHED 



AT THE NEW YORK STATE 



COLLEGE OF FORESTRY 



A NEW department, that of forest recre- 

 ation, has just been established at the 

 New York State College of Forestry. This 

 department will assist in the development 

 of the work of the College, both along in- 

 vestigational and instructional lines, in the 

 proper uses of forest areas for public rec- 

 reation purposes. The establishment of this 

 department is in line with the endeavor of 

 the College to make its work of real service 

 to the people of the State and to increase 

 the right use of forests and forest lands. 

 This is the first department of forest recrea- 

 tion to be established in a school or college 

 in this country. 



With the great Adirondack and Catskill 

 Forest Preserves, Palisades Interstate Park, 

 Letchworth Park and some thirty other 

 public forest reservations, the whole total- 

 ing nearly two million acres, New York 

 State has unique forest resources, capable 

 of securing to its millions of people great 

 public good in the way of recreational uses. 

 Just as playgrounds are being established 

 in villages and cities throughout the coun- 

 try, where play may be organized and 

 properly directed, so the forests of this and 

 other States must be studied and developed, 

 that they may be more effective playgrounds 

 for the people of the State. 



This new department of forest recreation 

 in the College of Forestry will be in charge 

 of Prof. Henry R. Francis, who has made 

 a specialty of this line of work and who 

 during the past five years has been carry- 

 ing on landscape extension work both in 

 New York and Massachusetts. During the 

 coming summer Professor Francis will be- 

 gin systematic studies of forest and park 

 areas in New York to prepare bulletins for 

 recreational development, and late in the 

 season will make a trip through the national 

 forests and national parks of the West to 

 see what has already been done by the 

 National Government and by the Western 

 States in developing the recreational possi- 

 bilities of forest lands. 



