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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



BIG PINES FOR AUGUST- 

 SEPTEMBER PLANTING 



TREES 6 to 20 feet high. Trees that save you five to ten years or 

 more. Giiaranteed to grow satisfactorily or replaced. They have 

 been skillfully grown in the nursery, frequently rootpruned and trans- 

 planted. This results in a compact system of small feeding roots contained 

 in a big ball of earth. We have invented canvases and platforms for 

 securely holding this ball of earth. They will ship a thousand miles. 



How Can I Use Them? 



Evergreens from the nursery are usually 

 considered little bright spots to look down 

 upon and wait for. These big Pines 

 serve a purpose corresponding to the side 

 walls of a house. Are you annoyed by 

 the dust and noise of the street ? Are you 

 disturbed by the constant passing? Are 

 you wishing you had a larger country 

 place where the public did not intrude? 

 To get such a place would cost more money 

 and perhaps necessitate traveling further 

 out of town. 



These Pines will make a dense screen imme- 

 diately. You can have them planted in a few 

 days and enjoy them immediately. Send for 

 Hicks Evergreens for August-September Planting. 

 It suggests several beautiful ways of arranging 

 Pines with Laurel, Birch and Oak. 



There are thousands of other large evergreens 

 growing in squares 6 to 15 feet apart Austrian, 

 Scotch. Pitch and Jack Pine, Hemlock, White and 

 Nordmann's Fir, Blue and Douglas Spruce. Let 



us send you five tree samples of White Spruce 3 to 

 S feet high, hardy, dense, bluegreen. Excellent 

 for the seashore or mountains. 



Living OiF The Country 



Are there beautiful big Pines or Cedars 

 5 to 30 feet high ? Do you wish the fun of 

 selecting and grouping them in your 

 home landscape? We will send apparatus, 

 foreman and a few expert men to work 

 with local men and teams. July is the 

 time to start. Do you want big Elms or 

 Sugar Maples ? Now is the time to pick 

 them out. The same crew can move 

 them in September or October. 



Do you wish some shrubs and flowers to plant 

 right away? We have them in boxes and pots, per- 

 mitting planting where the places are closed in April. 



Isaac Hicks & Son 



Westbury, Nassau County, N. Y. 



Tree Seeds 



are Produced bg 

 Scientific Forestry 



OUR experts have devoted 

 much time to tree seeds. 

 We recognize the immense im- 

 portance of the work. 



Our stock includes rare species 

 and covers double the assortment 

 of any other seed house Ameri- 

 can or Foreign. 



Ask for a copy of our' exten- 

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J. M. Thorburn & Co. 



SINCE 1802 



53 Barclay Street through 



to 54 Park Place 



NEW YORK 



HILL'S 



Seedlings and Transplants 



Also Tree Seeds 

 FOR REFORESTING 



BEST for over a half century. All leading 

 hardy sorts, grown in immense quantities. 

 Prices lowest. Quality highest. Forest 

 Planter's Guide, also price lists are free. 

 Write today and mention this magazine. 



THE D. HILL NURSERY CO. 



Evergreen Specialists 



Largest Growers in A merica 



BOX 501 DUITDEE, ILL. 



We Raise 

 Our Own 

 Trees" 



Evergreen 



^ Seedlings, Transplants 



From our specialized collection 

 of young conifers you will find 

 what you want for every place 

 and purpose. Our stock is 

 hardy and field grown and 

 admirably adapted for forest 

 planting and lining out. 

 Your order will have personal attention 

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Send for calahg and save money 



ThB North-Ea.stern Forestry Co. 



Tct> Seed*, Nursery Stock 

 Box A, Cheshire. Connecticut 



feet is the same, the law is made the 

 laughing stock and fires go on just the 

 same. Of course the education of public 

 opinion will in time remedy this, but it 

 is a pity that those who are charged with 

 the execution of the laws should have 

 so little regard for their oaths and for 

 the good of the country. 



The next most important thing which 

 is necessary for fire protection is the bet- 

 ter disposal of lumbering slash. Once a 

 fire gets into a cut-over country it is al- 

 most impossible to stop it, but if the 

 debris from lumbering were removed 

 there would practically never be serious 

 forest fires in this section. If a general 

 law were passed making it compulsory on 

 all woods operators to burn their debris at 

 the time of logging, little extra expense 

 would be involved, and since every opera- 

 tor would have to use the same measures 

 there would be discrimination and the 

 cost would all fall on the consumer. That 

 such disposal is entirely practical and not 

 at all prohibitory in cost is shown by the 

 experience of Mr. Gutches in Saskatche- 

 wan and Forester Cox in Minnesota. 



The worst fire in the territory of the 

 St. Maurice Forest Protective Association 

 was on the Croche River on the limits of 

 The BelgoCanadian Pulp and Paper Co., 

 The Brown Corporation and Mr. J. H. 

 Dansereau. This fire was probably caused 

 by some dam keepers or fox hunters 

 throwing away burning matches used to 

 light their pipes and burnt over about 30 

 square miles. The section where this fire 

 started had been partly lumbered and the 

 fire gained such headway in the old cut- 

 tings that it was impossible to check it 

 and by the time it reached the virgin tim- 

 ber it had gained such headway that noth- 

 ing but rain could check it. 



In Ontario there is no restriction on 

 brush burning or land clearing by fire, so 

 that the settlers are much more of a 

 menace than in Quebec and the same 

 problem of proper and impartial enforce- 

 ment of the fire laws are necessary. 



The tenders are all in for the million 

 and a half dollar storage dam to be built 

 by the Quebec Government on the St. 

 Maurice River, at the rapid La Loutre. 

 This dam is of the first importance to one 

 of the most important industrial sections 

 of the province and by stabilizing the 

 water conditions will be of great benefit. 



Dr. B. E. Fernow, dean of the Faculty 

 of Forestry of the University of Toronto, 

 is just starting a trip through the west. 



Prof. W. N. Millar, of the University of 

 Toronto, is in Calgary. 



Mr. Clyde Leavitt, Forester to the 

 Dominion Railway Commission and presi- 



