CALIFORNIA'S TREE COLLECTION 



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The total amount to be expended under this system of 

 sharing the Forest receipts with the States to make up for 

 the loss of local taxes due to public ownership of the land 

 is about $16,000 greater than for the previous fiscal year, 

 as the receipts for the fiscal year 1915 exceeded those of 

 the previous fiscal year by about $44,000. The provision 

 of law under which a portion of the receipts is turned 

 over to the States dates from 190G, and the total pay- 

 ments reach, with this year's allotment, nearly $4,500,000. 

 The 10 per cent provision for government-built public 

 roads has been in force only since 1912, and has now 

 made available for this purpose an aggregate of $986,000. 



To the visitor from the north and eastern States the 

 butternut tree and the sugar maple have a familiar look, 

 and there are other varieties that make southerners feel 

 at home as they stand beneath their branches. In all. 



CALIFORNIA'S TREE COLLECTION 



ONE of the largest collections of rare trees, repre- 

 senting countries in all parts of the globe, is that 

 maintained by the State of California in the large 

 and beautiful park surrounding the capitol building in 

 Sacramento. Here one will find not only scores of va- 

 rieties of coast trees but visitors from afar like the white 

 mulberry from Asia, the variegated euonymus from 

 Japan, the Rose of Sharon from Syria and the silver 

 wattle from Australia. 



Chili has a representative in the monkey puzzle tree, 

 other wise the Araucaria imbricata, that peculiar mem- 

 ber of the pine family which takes its name from the fact 

 that its crowded and twisted branches are said to puzzle 

 the monkey which would seek to climb it. From Brazil 

 was brought the lemon verbena, while from distant 

 Persia there came the walnut. 



Europe has a number of trees in the State's collection, 

 including the Aleppo pine, the sweet bay and the haw- 

 thorn. The graceful Irish yew lines one of the walks 

 leading to the capitol, with century plants alternating. 



THIS MONKEY PUZZLE TREE 



This is a peculiar member of the pine family from Chili, a])tly named 

 because it is said the crooked and twisted branches make it a puzzle 

 for monkeys to climb. 



Capitol Park contains some 500 kinds of trees and 

 shrubs, and many students of arboriculture visit it to see 

 the various species in leaf and blossom. 



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These graceful trees line one of the walks leading to the capitol of 

 California at Sacramento. 



40,000 GET FREE TIMBER 



OF THE 688,928,000 board feet of timber cut on 

 the National Forests during the fiscal year 

 ended June 30, 1915, according to statistics just 

 compiled by the United States Forest Service, 123,168,000 

 feet were taken under free-use permits given to settlers 

 and others living in or near National Forests. There 

 were 40,000 free-use permittees, and the value of the 

 timber they cut was $206,464.13. 



^Montana leads the National Forest States in the 

 amount of timber cut under sales, with more than 101,- 

 000,000 feet, but takes second place in the free-use cut, 

 with 18,000,000 feet. Idaho leads the free-use list, with 

 a cut of nearly 25,000,000 feet, and is a close second in 

 the amount of timber cut under sales contracts, with 

 over 100,000,000 feet. Oregon, Colorado, Washington, 

 Arizona, California, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, and 

 South Dakota, in the order named, contributed from 60,- 

 000,000 to 24,000,000 feet under both free use and sales. 

 The middle western and eastern National Forest States 

 furnished relatively insignificant quantities. 



