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THE FORESTER. 



Jun 



great project and obtain its endorsement 

 by the most influential body or organiza- 

 tion which he can approach." 



Copies of the circular and resolution 

 may be obtained by application to Dr. C. 

 P. Ambler, Secretary of the Appalachian 

 National Park Association, Asheville, 

 N. C. 



Left The June number of THE 



FORESTER goes to press as 

 Congress is about to adjourn. It is to be 

 feared that in the rush of business, which 

 precedes adjournment, action on the Min- 

 nesota Park project, the purchase of the 

 Calaveras grove, and other less important 

 matters will be left incomplete. Regret- 

 able and disappointing as this is, the situ- 

 ation still has some features which enable 

 one to feel not altogether discouraged. On 

 the twelve Indian reservations in Minnesota 

 no cutting is being allowed even under the 

 dead and down timber act. Under date of 

 May 23d the Chicago correspondent of 

 Forest and Stream wrote : " Col. Cooper 

 has done that much already. He has kept 

 all that Pine standing where it was. This 

 is a great deal to have accomplished, but it 



surely has been done, and Secretary Hitc 

 cock stands firm in his position that r 

 more Pine shall be cut until this matt 

 has been looked into." Similarly in tl 

 case of the Calaveras grove im media 

 lumbering is hardly to be feared. Tl 

 authorization to purchase it came so ne; 

 to being passed that the owners could ha 1 

 small inducement to begin the work of fe 

 ling the trees until Congress has had 

 chance to finish with the question one w< 

 or the other. That the purchase shou 

 not be authorized, if proposed again, i 

 in the light of the favor the resolutio: 

 have met with this year, almost inco 

 ceivable ; and finally that it will once mo 

 be brought in is happily not to be doubte 

 This project like that for the Minneso 

 Park and the one in the southern App 

 lachians, has been put before the count 

 too well, and has received popular suj 

 port that is too general and enthusiast 

 for it to die a natural death. The grout 

 that has been gained in the way of resol 

 tions brought in and passed may appa 

 ently be lost, but the work ^that has bee 

 done has counted none the less, and if it 

 kept up it will gain its objects in tl 

 end. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



An Interesting Holly. 



To THE EDITOR OF THE FORESTER. 



Sir : During a recent trip in the Unaka 

 Mountains, of Tennessee I encountered a 

 Holly which was of unusual interest in 

 that nearly every leaf upon it was entire. 

 An occasional leaf showed one, or some- 

 times two, spines on the sides, but fully 

 90 per cent, were wholly without spines 

 except the apex. This interesting speci- 

 men stood beside a Holly with leaves 

 normal in every respect, while a short dis- 

 tance from it were trees whose leaves 

 showed every variation from the entire to 

 the ordinary type. 



HENRY S. GRAVES. 



The Fires in Michigan. 



To THE EDITOR OF THE FORESTER. 



Sir : During the early weeks of Ma 

 this year, I traveled over many miles 

 the wild lands in the northern part of tl 

 southern peninsula of Michigan, whe 

 the usual yearly fires were making slo 

 consumption. These fires do not bin 

 everything cleanly, or cover the san 

 ground each year. They seem to have 

 devilish tendency for finding their fu 

 after an interval of years when the secor 

 growth has acquired, or is about to have, 

 value. They travel slowly, supported I 

 the dry grass, the smaller trees that we: 

 killed by a preceding fire, the fallen Pint 



