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AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



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THE FORESTER. 



A MONTHLY MAGAZINE 



Devoted to Arboriculture and Forestry, the 



Care and Use of Forests and Forest 



Trees, and Related Subjects. 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 



The Forester is the Official Organ of 



The American Forestry Association, 



Hon. James Wilson, Sec'y of Agriculture, 

 President. 



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No. 117 Corcoran Building, Washington, D. C, 



where all communications should be addressed. 



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 Forester. 



SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. 



The special summer meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association will be held at Los 

 Angeles, Cal., July 19 and 20. A large number 

 of prominent members of the Association have 

 signified their intention of being present, and 

 it is believed that the meeting will be one of 

 the most interesting and enthusiastic of recent 

 years. A number of papers on live topics will 

 be read, further announcement of which will 

 be made early next month. The leading papers 

 read will be published in the August number 

 of The Forester. 



The attention of all readers of The Forester 

 who are desirous of possessing a complete li- 

 brary on the subject of forestry is called to the 

 several notices inserted in the advertising pages 

 of the present issue. 



The increasing public interest in the sub- 

 ject of Forestry is evidenced frequently in 

 letters to The Forester, approving of the 

 work of this Association and its magazine. In 

 a recent letter, one of the best-posted forest 

 experts in the West says: "lam proud of 

 the good work done by the American Forestry 

 Association. We are now beginning to see 

 the practical results of an intelligent agitation 

 f the forestry problem. The National Gov- 



ernment and a number of States have taken 

 advanced steps in behalf of forestry. But 

 there is need of still greater work in the 

 economic reform, both West and East." 



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Life riember. 



Roswell Pettibone Flower, former Governor 

 of New York State, and a life member of the 

 American Forestry Association, died sud- 

 denly at the Eastport Country Club, Long 

 Island, N. Y., on the evening of May 12. The 

 cause of his death was acute indigestion,, 

 which induced heart failure. 



Mr. Flower was born in Theresa, Jefferson 

 County, N. Y. , on August 7, 1835, the fourth 

 of seven sons of Nathan Flower, a manufac- 

 turer. 



Spending his early days on a farm, and in his 

 father's wool-carding establishment, he was suc- 

 cessively a store clerk, school teacher, deputy 

 postmaster, and jeweler, until i8f 9. Ten years 

 later on the death of his brother-in-law, Henry 

 Keep, President of the New York Central 

 Railroad, the latter's personal estate came un- 

 der Mr. Flower's management and brought 

 him into the financial circles of the metropolis. 

 Mr Flower was prominent in the Democratic 

 party, representing the Watertown District 

 in the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth and Forty 

 ninth Congress. In 1891 he was elected Gov- 

 ernor of New York. He refused to consider a 

 renomination, and became a special partner in 

 the firm of Flower & Co. in Wall Street. He 

 became interested in great financial undertak- 

 ings, in which he made himself a powerful 

 factor. 



In 1859 Mr. Flower married Sarah M. Wood- 

 ruff, who survives him, with one daughter, 

 Emma Gertrude, the wife of John B. Taylor. 

 The funeral was held May 1 5 from hi* New 

 York City home at 597 Fifth Avenue. Services 

 were held at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, of 

 which Mr. Flower had been a warden for many 

 years, and interment was made the next day at. 

 Watertown, N. Y. 



