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class discusses or presents the articles of 

 interest in one of the lumber journals 

 which has been assigned to him for an 

 entire month. In this way he becomes 

 quite intimately acquainted with the 

 leading lumber journals of the world. 

 The other feature is Pacific Logging 

 Congress Day, held on November 19, at 

 which time each man presented, with 

 the aid of the stereopticon, one of the 

 articles given at the last annual session 

 of the Pacific Logging Congress. 



connecting links are essential parts of 

 established through routes of travel." 



The fifth annual meeting of the North 

 Carolina Forestry Association will be 

 held at Raleigh, N. C., on Wednesday, 

 January 13, and a number of speakers 

 have been assigned subjects of import- 

 ance to the well-developed forest 

 conservation movement in the State. 



The American Road Congress in its 

 session at Atlanta, Ga. , recently adopted, 

 among other resolutions, the following: 



"That the Federal Government be 

 urged to build highways across all 

 Indian and Forest Reservations and 

 all other Federalized areas where such 



Forest students will be interested in 

 learning that the members of the 

 Forestry Club of the Forestry Depart- 

 ment of the Iowa State College at 

 Ames, Iowa, have adopted an official 

 shirt, a dark grey stag shirt with the 

 Forest Service emblem and the class 

 numerals. 



ARBORIST FORESTER 



By ALFRED GASKILL 



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* HIS is a plea for the revival of an 

 expressive old English term. As 

 everybody knows a widespread 

 interest in tree culture has pro- 

 duced a class of workers who give 

 special attention to shade and orna- 

 mental trees. In many directions, 

 especially through organized municipal 

 activities, this field is broadening. 

 Those men who as skilled foresters are 

 engaged in it undoubtedly have a right 

 to the title despite the character of 

 their work, but the term city forester, 

 or even forester as applied to one who 

 cares for individual trees, is a misnomer. 

 The terms tree warden, tree doctor, tree 

 surgeon are equally unsatisfactory be- 



cause they usually are connected with 

 artisans rather than with professionals. 



As a substitute for all these faulty 

 terms the simple, descriptive, thoroughly 

 established word arborist is suggested. 

 It is found in all the standard dictionar- 

 ies, has been used for years where tree 

 culture, as distinguished from forest 

 culture, is practiced, and satisfies an 

 actual, present need. 



It is scarcely necessary to add that 

 arborists and arboriculture are as worthy 

 and as important as forestry and silvi- 

 culture. There is no question of inferior 

 and superior. The proposition is made 

 solely that we may have a means of 

 indicating succinctly the line of work in 

 which a specialist is particularly active. 







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 notification of any change in address so that the AMERICAN FORESTRY 

 MAGAZINE and other mail will not be delayed in reaching them. 



Such notices are desired before the 25th of each month so that the 

 address may be changed for the monthly mailing of the magazine. 



