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get posted in the matter (Bulletin 92, in Southern Jersey, the light intensity 

 Forest Service). His measurements are problem is not so very serious, for the 

 all in Weisner's "Isolator" standards, general diffused daylight is so strong 

 but a good enough practical substitute can that white pine will grow directly 

 be made by measuring full daylight in under a big chestnut oak and seemingly 

 your locality on bright summer days get to maturity without any particular 

 with the photographer's actinometer, trouble we have several of them 35 

 and then taking the average per cent, years and over growing under such con- 

 of full daylight with this instrument in ditions. But in more northern localities, 

 any locality you propose to under plant, where the winters are severe and the 

 A table of our more common eastern total yearly daylight much less, light 

 species, with their tolerance expressed measurements should be taken. In the 

 in terms of full daylight, would be valu- brief limits of this article the subject 

 able. The subject is of importance, for can be barely mentioned; I believe that 

 many species will thrive when young in with a thorough comprehension of all 

 a light which they would die in after that is said in Zon's bulletin, a wood- 

 middle age, and it is well to take light lot owner could make with an ordi- 

 values in different localities before nary pocket actinometer, costing fifty 

 finally deciding on the species of tree to cents, measurements sufficiently accurate 

 plant there, after due consideration enough for planting purposes, 

 has been had of water, soil, and sur- 

 rounding general conditions. With us (To be Continued.) 



A MAN TO A TREE 



By GERTRUDE CORNWELL HOPKINS 

 Stripped clean to meet the blast you But I'm not set to stay like this, 



stand, 



No tender leaves to shred ; 

 Your thousand fingers grip the earth 

 And all the rest seems dead. 



Your life drawn back and hid beneath 

 The cool, thick, silent crust- 

 No blithe joys now of upper air, 

 Your spirit dwells in dust. 



I'm like you, Tree; this is the time 

 I'm stript to bare life's needs, - 

 For when a branch is full o' sap, 

 And bent or broke it bleeds. 



I have to see some grim days past, 

 To play this game straight through ; 

 It's time for endurance, not for mirth 

 With me, the same as you. 



So stiff and stark and numb : 

 A man should be as sure as you ; 

 His good green time will come 



When he can spread in the warm air, 

 Stick small, new leaflets out, 

 And add a grace or two to life- 

 He doesn't have to doubt. 



Yet I need more than you do, Tree; 

 I can't stand still and wait, 

 Secure that all the good that's mine 

 Will come to me like fate : 



I have to stir around a bit, 

 Find what belongs to me 

 0, I'm gnarled and roughed 



strained and hard 

 But just you wait, Old Tree! 



and 



Lumbermen and others have shown recently that only 40% of the trees cut- in the forests of this 

 country are used for himber. The remaining '60% represents pure waste as high stumps and tops 

 either left to rot in the woods or as slabs consumed in the burner or slash piles at the mill. In Germany 

 about 95 % of every tree grown in the forests is used. Practically nothing from the forest is allowed 

 to go to waste; even the stumps are grubbed out and the twigs and branches tied up into faggots for fuel . 



