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THE FORESTER. 



April, 



we criticised the lack of directions for 

 measuring timber by American methods, 

 namely, the board foot, standard, and 

 cord. ' These measures will be used in 

 this country for many years, both by lum- 

 bermen and foresters, and any treatise 

 which subordinates them to a method 

 used in some other country and almost 

 never used in America is not complete 

 and can have but little practical value. 



recommendations are supported by no 

 arguments of consequence and appar- 

 ently by little actual examination. The 

 report as a whole is inconclusive and in- 

 complete. It represents an exceedingly 

 small return for the expenditure of the 

 three thousand dollars appropriated for 

 the Committee which made it. 



The report of the Special Committee 

 of the New York Legislature appointed 

 to investigate as to what additional lands 

 shall be acquired within the forest pre- 

 serve in order to protect the watersheds 

 and for the Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion has been printed under date of Feb- 

 ruary 9. It is a document of sixteen 

 pages, chiefly occupied with puffs of the 

 regions visited by the Committee. Its 



The edition of The Forester for No- 

 vember, 1898, having been exhausted, it 

 has been found necessary to have a new 

 one printed. Members of the Association 

 and subscribers who may need copies 

 of that issue (No. 11, Vol. IV,) to com- 

 plete files for binding, will be supplied if 

 they notify the publishers to that effect. 



A limited number of complete copies 

 of Vol. IV of The Forester are offered 

 for sale. Price $1.00. Previous vol- 

 umes are out of print. 



Recent Publications. 



The European and Japanese Chestnuts in 

 the Eastern United States, Bulletin No. 42, 

 Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station, by 

 Prof. G. Harold Powell, treats of chestnut cul- 

 ture from a horticultural point of view. The 

 history of the introduction of the cultivated va- 

 rieties of the chestnut from France and Japan is 

 briefly sketched and several pages are devoted 

 to a discussion of the value of its fruit as food. 

 Four pages are filled with the botanical con- 

 sideration of the American, Asiatic and Euro- 

 pean types, their similarities and differences. 

 Cultural suggestions include production of va- 

 rieties from seedlings and hybrids; propaga- 

 tion, by budding and grafting; the treatment 

 of the planted orchard and the grove of top- 

 worked sprouts; subsequent care of trees; in- 

 sect enemies and fungous diseases. The merits 

 and advantages of the two introduced species 

 are compared and the conclusion is drawn that 

 the J apan Chestnut is the more desirable for the 

 nut culturist, although the European species is 

 accorded a higher value as a timber tree. A 

 great development for this branch of horticul- 

 ture in the Eastern States is predicted. A list 

 of thirty-six desirable varieties, about equally 

 divided between the two species, with brief 

 descriptions of each, completes the pamphlet of 

 thirty-five pages. It is well illustrated and 

 well written, and serves excellently as an 

 introduction to the subject under consider- 

 ation. 



Bulletin No. 40 of the Wyoming Experiment 

 Station is entitled The Trees of Wyoming and 

 Hoiv to Know Them. This bulletin of fifty 

 pages was prepared by Prof. Aven Nelson, 

 botan ; st of the Wyoming Station. It is a brief 

 but comprehensive description of the native 

 arborescent flora of Wyoming, and, with Prof. 

 Buff urn's bulletin on the shade and forest trees 

 in artificial plantations, it makes a very complete 

 exposition of the subject of trees and tree cul- 

 ture in that State. In consequence of the 

 great altitude of the mountains of Wyoming 

 and the arid conditions prevailing on the plains 

 the forests are limited in area and it is but 

 natural to presume the list of species included 

 would not be la r ge. Prof. Nelson has listed 

 thirty- one species in this bulletin, although 

 not all of these would be classed as timber 

 trees. Of these eight are conifers, three Pines, 

 two Spruces {Pice a), the Douglas Spruce 

 (Pseudotsuga), and two Junipers. The de- 

 ciduous trees enumerated include five species 

 of Poplar, two of Birch, one of Oak, three of 

 Maple, and one of Ash and a number of species 

 of lesser importance. The bulletin devotes 

 some space to observations on the growing 

 interest in trees and tree culture, forests and 

 forestry and advocates an extension of the forest 

 reservation system in Wyoming. It is well 

 illustrated with half-tones and drawings of 

 forest scenes, trees, twigs, foliage, flowers and 

 fruits of the species described, and altogether 

 it is a very interesting and instructive bulletin. 



