64 JAMESTOWN CONGRESS OF HORTICULTURE 



other hand, our lumbermen are men that have been after the lumber 

 end and it has been absolutely necessary to get in touch with them. 

 Our lumbermen are business men and if we can get them to collect 

 the seeds and replant, they will assist in the esthetic side by virtue 

 of the fact that they will be covering up these unsightly conditions. I 

 believe the time is coming when both the practical and esthetic men 

 will get together and see that they are both working toward the same 

 end. 



Mr. McNeill : I hope that you are not overlooking the ordinary 

 sugar maple in this connection. It is a tree that is very valuable for 

 its sugar products, frequently adulterated, but the laws in the various 

 states and provinces are now making it very hard indeed to deal in 

 anything except the genuine sugar. There are a very few trees now 

 and they are of very high value per acre as a lumber tree. There 

 is an unlimited demand, the demand for maple timber is increasing 

 much more rapidly than the supply, and I believe that there are many 

 parts of the New England states, certainly parts of the Provinces of 

 Quebec and Ontario that will yield large returns planted to sugar 

 maple. 



Dr. Galloway: There is a phase that has not been touched upon 

 and that will probably be of interest to the members of the Congress, 

 namely, the introduction and encouragement of growing bamboo in 

 this country. The bamboo constitutes the chief wood supply of im- 

 portant countries like Japan and India, and has long been the only 

 source of wood supply. The last two or three years we have had a 

 line out in that direction and I have a man in Japan and in India 

 making a special study in relation to their utilization in house con- 

 struction, bridge material, furniture and so on, and we have secured 

 the services of that man and are now importing considerable quanti- 

 ties of bamboo, with the idea of putting that out in the sections of the 

 United States where these other woods do not thrive so well, namely, 

 in some of the swampy regions of the South. Bamboo must be grown 

 where it is quite wet and we have been doing considerable in the way 

 of investigations in that line. 



Professor Van Deman: While I am a fruit grower and have had 

 a great ?deal more to do with the destruction of forests than I have 

 had to do with in any way increasing them, because I have destroyed 

 110 acres of pine within the last three years in southern Florida and 

 put it out to citrus fruits and some other fruits of a semi-tropical 

 nature, and in Louisiana I am now engaged in deforesting over 1,000 

 acres of the finest Mississippi bottoms, yet it is something that has 

 always deeply interested me, and this thought has occurred to me 

 with regard to the preservation and reforestation of the Appalachian 

 mountain chain, if we could in some way prevail on these great-hearted 

 millionaires, if we could get those men to open their hearts and buy 

 these vast tracts of practically worthless farming lands in the Appa- 

 lachian mountains and donate to the government, it would certainly 

 be a wonderful step. I do not know that such a thing could possibly 

 be brought about, but if we could get it to become fashionable for 



