1905 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



483 



by an unknown author, spending the 

 day peacefully snoozing in a ham- 

 mock, or in exchanging choice bits of 

 gossip for to what delicious depths 

 will intelligent minds descend when 

 they have determined to enjoy a pe- 

 riod of absolute unexertion? Theirs 

 was a tumble from mental heights, 

 and a frolicksome bouncing on the 

 soft, good-natured pillow of laziness. 



Gradually, however, as entertaining 

 reports of the Forestry School pro- 



practical and picturesque phases of 

 California forestry, botany and agri- 

 culture, for the three divisions are 

 practically synonymous so far as the 

 good of the country is concerned. 



During this year's sessions Prof. A. 

 V. Stubenrauch, of the College of Ag- 

 riculture of the University of Califor- 

 nia, who has done active and valuable 

 work in establishing experimental hor- 

 ticultural sub-stations throughout the 

 state, lectured on the economic value 



Camping in Idyllwild, San Jacmto Mountains, Riverside County, California 



ceedings reached the ears of the leth- 

 argic rusticators, they rubbed their 

 eyes and their wits and finally became 

 enthusiastic attendants at all sessions. 

 This year much interest has been man- 

 ifested in the lectures, which are given 

 in the large hall of the new bungalow. 

 These lectures are illustrated with 

 electric stereopticon, and colored slides 

 pictorially descriptive of timbered, un- 

 timbered, fire-swept, and over-grazed 

 areas. They have to do with scientific, 



of acacias, eucalypts, and other kinds 

 of Australian and New Zealand trees 

 and shrubs, especially those species 

 that seem most feasible for California 

 conditions. Mr. T. P. Lukens, of 

 Pasadena, an agent of the Forest Ser- 

 vice, who has devoted the past ten 

 years to reforesting mountain slopes 

 that have been denuded by fire, lec- 

 tured on "Forest Protection," "Re- 

 forestation," "Forests of the Pacific 

 Coast," and "Water Conservation." 



