1899. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



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The Sugar Pine, the king of all the 

 Pines, does not take kindly to our South- 

 ern mountains, while through the middle 

 and northern Sierras, it is a close rival 

 of the Sequoia in size and perfection of 

 shaft, far outstretching its relative, the 

 Ponderosa. With us it takes second 

 place to the Ponderosa. A few favored 

 spots should be planted with them to 

 perpetuate the species. No conifer pre- 

 sents a more striking picture in fruitage 

 than the Sugar Pine. Its cones are two 

 years in maturing, and are borne in large 



clusters on the ends of the branches, and 

 when mature are from 10 to 20 inches in 

 length. As Winter approaches, the 

 cones open and set free vast numbers of 

 edible winged seeds, which furnish good 

 food for the bears, squirrels and birds. 

 Not one seed in many thousand finds 

 shelter in the soil, where it can grow, 

 but, with a little help from man, many 

 would find covering and become forest 

 monarchs. 



T. P. Lukens, 



Pasadena, Cal. 



The Profession of Forestry. 



Being an address delivered before the students of Yale University. 

 (Copyright, 1899, by the Yale Alumni Weekly.) 



BY THE FORESTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 





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THE OSBORN HALL ELMS. 



Even the massive architecture fails to dwarf the trees. 



The subject matter of the profession 

 of Forestry is equally distinct from 

 street tree-planting on the one side and 

 landscape architecture on the other. It 

 has to do with wooded regions, with the 

 productiveness of forests, chiefly through 

 conservative lumbering, and, in the 

 treeless parts of the United States, with 

 planting for economic reasons. Except 

 for a comparatively small area of desert 



land in the West, the whole land sur- 

 face of the United States is included in 

 the possible field of work for the forester. 

 How extensive this field is will appear 

 from the fact that the woodland in 

 farms alone, in 1890, comprised more 

 than 200,000,000 acres, or more than 

 four times the area of the National for- 

 est reserves. 



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