1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



97 



pended for non-payment of dues 

 (monthly members), one member has 

 died, and 3 members have received in- 

 demnity, leaving 145 members entitled 

 to share in the credit dividend. 



These 145 members have paid S832 

 in dues, making the distribution of the 

 $300.40 on the basis of 35 cents for 

 each dollar of dues paid. This credit 

 dividend, in the case of those whose 

 membership began June 1, 1905, will 

 be S2.45, as they paid $7 dues. Those 

 whose membership began July 1, paid 

 $6 dues, and will be entitled to $2.10, 

 and so on. 



This credit dividend will be avail- 

 able in payment of dues at the end of 



1906 by those who remain in good 

 standing. 



Those whose credit is $2.45 will pay 

 $3.55 on July 1, 1906, to be paid up 

 to the end of the year, or if they pay 

 monthly will be called upon to pay 

 only 55 cents for October and will 

 then be paid up to the end of the year. 



This dividend is a little less than 

 the approximate amount announced in 

 the notice of the annual meeting on ac- 

 count of the death of Herbert B. Blair 

 during the last week of the year. The 

 death benefit of $200, paid to his wife, 

 reduced to that extent the amount 

 available for the dividend. 



AIDING CITIES AND TOWNS TO 

 NAME THEIR TREES 



The Forest Service will Identify Trees in Streets and Parks 



""THE increased interest in forests 

 A and forest trees which is a sign 

 of the times has, among other things, 

 led many city and town officials to 

 seek to make known the names of 

 trees growing in streets and parks. 

 Xot only are such trees in very many 

 cases now without marks of identifi- 

 cation, but in not a few cases they 

 have been labeled with incorrect 

 names. The Forest Service has de- 

 vised plans by which its co-operation 

 may be secured in correctly identifying 

 the public trees of any community 

 which may care to call upon it. 



It is remarkable how little uniform- 

 ity there is in the use of tree names. 

 Even scientific names, which are, of 

 course, always more exact than the 

 common names, are in many cases un- 

 settled, but common names are often 

 used almost at random. In different 

 parts of the country the same species 

 may be popularly known under very 

 different names, and, on the other 

 hand, the same name is often used in 



different localities for altogether dif- 

 ferent trees. 



In the effort to assist toward uni- 

 formity of usage in scientific names of 

 forest trees, and also to lessen the 

 chaos in the use of common names, 

 the Forest Service has already pub- 

 lished "A Check List of the Forest 

 Trees of the United States." This 

 serves as a guide when once a tree has 

 been identified by the botanist. But 

 the first requisite is that the identifica- 

 tion should be correct. It is here that 

 difficulty is often met with. For this 

 reason the Forest Service now offers 

 its technical knowledge to city author- 

 ities. 



There are two ways in which assist- 

 ance may be given. Where the work 

 is on a large scale, a representative of 

 the Service will visit the town or city 

 and identify the tree by examination 

 on the spot. In most cases, however, 

 identification by correspondence will 

 prove entirely adequate. This will re- 

 quire merely that specimens of the 



