Canadian Forestry Journal, Julij, 1917 



1189 



heights of 150 feet, but in places 

 they even encroach upon the icy 

 field, when this has come to rest and 

 has a scanty cover of soil frorh the 

 moraine material, upon which vegeta- 

 tion can establish itself. Thus, at 

 the foot of Lucia Glacier, on Yakutat 

 Bay, the stream which runs in a wild 

 torrent from the glacier, has cut a 

 veritable canyon through the ice, 

 exposing an ice bank 100 feet high. 

 This ice is over laid with moraine 

 material a foot or more in depth, and 

 this is sufficient to support a dense 



cover, not only of herbaceous but of 

 woody vegetation, a thicket of the ever 

 present alder, with occasional willows, 

 and even spruce do not find the subst- 

 ratum too cold. As the ice melts at the 

 border, the soil and its occupants may 

 be seen from time to Lime tumbling 

 down into the stream, or else into the 

 deep potholes with which we find the 

 ice plateau amply provided." 



In his "Travels in Alaska" John 

 Muir describes a garden of flowering 

 plants and seeding trees growing on 

 the Stickeen Glacier. 



German Trick to Ruin French Orchards 



Thanks to the genius of the French 

 race, it is hoped that large numbers of 

 the fruit trees which the Germans 

 did their best to destroy, and in many 

 cases succeeded in destroying, may 

 be saved. Mr. Henry Wood, the 

 special correspondent of the United 

 Press of America with the French Ar- 

 mies, tells in a despatch how this 'mir- 

 acle' has been wrought. Through- 

 out the entire district devastated 

 there were thousands of trees that 

 the close pursuit of the French pre- 

 vented the Germans from cutting 

 down completely. Instead the kul- 

 tured tree-killers cut off a circle of 

 bark which, with a few days' ex- 

 posure to the sun would have been 

 enough to kill them. 



These trees presented the easiest 

 problem. The wounds were bound 

 up by thousands of army surgeons, 

 and Red Cross ambulance drivers 

 and stretcher carriers assisted. The 

 circle was first covered with a special 

 grafting cement, and the entire wound 

 then carefully bandaged, often with 

 bandages prepared for human limbs. 

 Tar was used for the work, and fin- 

 ally even a loamy clay. In the end 

 it was found that moss, twisted and 

 tied about the dressed wound, was 

 as effective as anything else. A 

 much more serious problem presented 

 itself where the trees had been cut 

 down. But here French genius also 

 solved the problem. The stumps, 

 protruding usually two or three feet 

 from the ground, were first trimmed 



off so as to conserve the sap. This 

 stump was then treated with the 

 grafting paste and carefully bandaged 

 till the tree lying at the side budded 

 from the sap that remained after 

 being cut down. Branches that show 

 ed great numbers of buds were then 

 cut ofT and grafted into the prepared 

 stump. To-day these grafts are in 

 full leaf and blossom, and years have 

 been saved in restoring the cut-down 

 orchards. 



♦" 





I WANTED—ASH AND HICK- I 

 I ORY TIMBER LIMITS | 



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An important British company are 

 considering the possibility of erecting 

 a factory in Canada for the manu- 

 facture of ash boat oars and hickory 

 dimension stock. They would re- 

 quire at least three million (3,000,000) 

 feet of ash per annum before they 

 would be warranted in putting up a 

 factory to manufacture the ash boat 

 oars for which they have a market. 

 They would also require large sup- 

 plies of hickory. If hickory and ash 

 are not obtainable together they 

 might possibly consider the estab- 

 lishment of factories in two localities. 

 Owners of timber areas containing 

 sufficient supplies of ash or hickory 

 or both might communicate with the 

 Commercial Intelligence Branch of 

 the Department of Trade and Com- 

 merce, Ottawa, referring to file No. 

 15782. 



