The Porester. 



Vol. VII. 



MAY, 1 90 1, 



No. 5. 



SPECIAL NOTICE. 



The American Forestry Association will not meet at Colorado 

 Springs, as announced in the columns of this issue, owing to the post- 

 ponement of the meeting of the National Irrigation Congress. The 

 Association will, however, meet in affiliation with the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science at Denver, Colorado, August 

 27th to 29th, inclusive. Announcement of meeting will be issued later. 



Otto J. J. Luebkert. 



must meet in marketing his timber, have 

 made recommendations to private owners 

 which are absurdly impractical and which 

 a forester, who understood his business, 

 would never have made. 



The real nature of forestry has been 

 misunderstood, not only by lumbermen, 

 but also by many persons who call them- 

 selves foresters. Some who have under- 

 stood the laws governing the life of trees 

 have believed themselves competent for- 

 esters, although they had no thorough 

 knowledge of the art of tending or repro- 



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But what is the difference between for- 

 estry and dendrology ? The chief differ- 

 ence is that the dendrologist's work is for 

 scientific purposes alone, while forestr} is 

 an applied science. But the facts upon 

 which the practice of forestry is based, 

 are really an extension of dendrology. 

 The dendrologist studies trees, chiefly for 

 the purpose of identification and classifi- 

 cation. Whatever study he makes of the 

 habits and life of trees is usually general 

 in character and is confined to the indi- 

 vidual. The forester goes further and 



