BOOK REVIEWS 



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BOOKS ON FORESTRY 



AMERICAN FORESTRY will publish each month, for the benefit of those who wish books on forestry, 

 a list of titles, authors and prices of such books. These may be ordered through the American Forestry 

 Association, Washington, D. C. Prices are by mail or express prepaid. 



FOREST VALUATION— Filibert Roth 



FOREST REGULATION— Filibert Roth 



PRACTICAL TREE REPAIR— By Elbert Peets 



THE LUMBER INDUSTRY— By R. S. Kellogg 



LUMBER MANUFACTURING ACCOUNTS— By Arthur F. Jones 



FOREST VALUATION— By H. H. Chapman 



CHINESE FOREST TREES AND TIMBER SUPPLY— By Norman Shaw 



TREES, SHRUBS, VINES AND HERBACEOUS PERE .1NIALS— By John Kirkegaard 



TREES AND SHRUBS— By Charles Sprague Sargent— Vols. I and II, 4 Parts to a Volume— 



Per Part 



THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER— Gifford Pinchot 



LUMBER AND ITS USES— R. S. Kellogg 



THE CARE OF TREES IN LAWN, STREET AND PARK— B. E. Fernow 



NORTH AMERICAN TREES— N. L. Britton 



KEY TO THE TREES— Collins and Preston 



THE FARM WOODLOT— E. G. Cheyney and J. P. Wentling 



IDENTIFICATION OF THE ECONOMIC WOODS OF THE UNITED STATES— Samuel J. 



Record 



PLANE SURVEYING— John C. Tracy 



FOREST MENSURATION— Henry Solon Gra -es 



THE ECONOMICS OF FORESTRY— B. E. Fernow 



FIRST BOOK OF FORESTRY— Filibert Roth 



PRACTICAL FORESTRY— A. S. Fuller 



PRINCIPLES OF AMERICAN FORESTRY— Samuel B. Green 



TREES IN WINTER— A. S. Blakeslee and C. D. Jarvis 



MANUAL OF THE TREES OF NORTH AMERICA (exclusive of Mexico)— Chas. Sprague 



Sargent 



AMERICAN WOODS— Romeyn B. Hough, 14 Volumes, per Volume 



HANDBOOK OF THE TREES OF THE NORTHERN U. S. AND CANADA, EAST OF THE 



ROCKY MOUNTAINS— Romeyn B. Hough 



GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH THE TREES— J. Horace McFarland 



PRINCIPAL SPECIES OF WOOD; THEIR CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTIES— Chas. H. Snow 



HANDBOOK OF TIMBER PRESERVATION— Samuel M. Rowe 



TREES OF NEW ENGLAND— L. L. Dame and Henry Brooks 



TREES, SHRUBS AND VINES OF THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES— H. E. Park- 



hurst 



TREES— H. Marshall Ward 



OUR NATIONAL PARKS— John Muir 



LOGGING— Ralph C. Bryant 



THE IMPORTANT TIMBER TREES OF THE UNITED STATES— S. B. Elliott 



FORESTRY IN NEW ENGLAND— Ralph C. Hawley and Austin F. Hawes 



THE PRINCIPLES OF HANDLING WOODLANDS— Henry Solon Graves 



SHADE TREES IN TOWNS AND CITIES— William Solotaroff 



THE TREE GUIDE— By Julia Ellen Rogers 



MANUAL FOR NORTHERN WOODSMEN— Austin Cary 



FARM FORESTRY— Alfred Akerman 



THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF WORKING PLANS (in forest organization)— A. B. Reck- 



nagel 



ELEMENTS OF FORESTRY— F. F. Moon and N. C. Brown 



MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF WOOD— Samuel J. Record 



STUDIES OF TREES— J. J. Levison 



TREE PRUNING— A. Des Cars 



THE PRESERVATION OF STRUCTURAL TIMBER— Howard F. Weiss 



SEEDING AND PLANTING IN THE PRACTICE OF FORESTRY— By James W. Tourney... 



FUTURE OF FOREST TREES— By Dr. Harold Unwin 



FIELD BOOK OF AMERICAN TREES AND SHRUBS— F. Schuyler Mathews 



FARM FORESTRY— By John Arden Ferguson 



THE BOOK OF FORESTRY— By Frederick F. Moon 



OUR FIELD AND FOREST TREES— By Maud Going 



HANDBOOK FOR RANGERS AND WOODSMEN— By Jay L. B. Taylor 



THE LAND WE LIVE IN— By Overton Price 



WOOD AND FOREST— By William Noyes 



THE ESSENTIALS OF AMERICAN TIMBER LAW— By J. P. Kinney 



HANDBOOK OF CLEARING AND GRUBBING, METHODS AND COST— By Halbert P. 



Gillette 



FRENCH FORESTS AND FORESTRY— By Theodore S. Woolsey, Jr 



MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS— By L. H. Pammel 



WOOD AND OTHER ORGANIC STRUCTURAL MATERIALS— Chas. H. Snow 



EXERCISES IN FOREST MENSURATION— Winkenwerder and Clark 



OUR NATIONAL FORESTS— H. D. Boerker 



MANUAL OF TREE DISEASES— Howard Rankin 



THE BOOK OF THE NATIONAL PARKS— By Robert Sterling Yard 



THE STORY OF THE FOREST— By J. Gordon Dorrance 



FOREST MANAGEMENT— By A. B. Recknagel and John Bentley, Jr 



THE FOREST RANGER AND OTHER VERSE— By John Guthrie 



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* This, of course, Is not a complete list, but we shall be glad to add to it any books on forestry 

 or related subjects upon request.— EDITOR. 



SPRUCE TREE 



T.\ making a survey of the spruce forests, 

 where the airplane cutting was carried 

 on during the war in the Grays Habor 

 spruce district, the Forest Service found 

 a tree 573 years old, according to its rings. 

 The tree was felled in clearing to make 

 the military camps safe after a limb had 

 fallen and menaced the roof of the officers' 

 quarters. The tree is close to the Olym- 

 lighway, eleven miles north of Hump- 

 tstips. 



573 YEARS OLD 



The stump was 11.6 feet from the ground 

 level. The tree was a sapling some two 

 inches in diameter when Columbus was 

 discovering America. Though not the 

 oldest spruce on record, it is premier in 

 age during the present survey. 



An effort is being made by the depart- 

 ment to get the age of the largest type of 

 Sitka spruce in each of the various air- 

 plane enterprises. More than 500 trees 

 have been listed to date. 



BOOK REVIEWS 



JPOREST MANAGEMENT, by A. B. 

 Recknagel and John Bentley, Jr., John 

 Wiley & Sons, New York, price $2.60. The 

 book contains a condensed and simple 

 treatment of the following subjects : Forest 

 mensuration, Forest organization, Forest 

 finance, and Forest administration and it 

 is written in such a manner as to be read- 

 ily understood and used by the layman, 

 timber owner and manager. Non-profes- 

 sional students of forestry in colleges and 

 universities and in professional courses not 

 post-graduate grade, will also find it of 

 value as a text. 



Forest Management occupies the middle 

 ground between the highly technical and 

 the very elementary textbooks and intelli- 

 gent study of the principles advocated in 

 this book will stimulate the practice of 

 forest management by owners of timber 

 land — large and small, public and private — 

 to the end that this important natural re- 

 source may be systematically maintained 

 and developed. 



RED GUM TREE YIELDS BALSAM 



OF TRADE VALUE 



XpEW people in the South, where the red 

 gum tree (Liquidambar styraciflua) 

 grows, apparently are aware that the gum 

 which exudes from this tree when its sap- 

 wood is wounded has commercial value. 

 This "sweet gum," as it is commonly called, 

 is similar in properties and composition 

 to the commercial product obtained from 

 a tree (Liquidambar orientals) indigenous 

 to Asia Minor and known in commerce as 

 "Oriental storax." 



According to the United States Forest 

 Products Laboratory at Madison, Wiscon- 

 sin, small amounts of the dried gum have 

 been used for some time in the manufac- 

 ture of chewing gum, but since the war 

 curtailed the supply of oriental storax 

 considerable quantities of the fresh "sweet 

 gum" or "American storax" have been put 

 on the market to replace the imported 

 product. 



As much as $2 a pound has been paid to 

 collectors of the gum and second hands 

 have sold it for from $2.50 to $3 a pound. 

 These prices, however, are inflated and it 

 is probable that in normal times the gum 

 would not bring more than 50 cents to $1 

 a pound. 



Storax is used in the manufacture of 

 perfumes, tobacco, adhesives and phar- 

 maceutical preparations, and contains cin- 

 namic acid and cinnamic alcohol, both of 

 which are in demand. 



PLANT MEMORIAL TREES 



