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take up the duties of a public man as a 

 member of the city council, board of trade, 

 school board and pilotage board. At the 

 time of the great fire which swept the infant 

 city of Vancouver off the map in 1886 the 

 Hastings Mills gave shelter to hundreds of 

 homeless people in their sheds and yard 

 buildings and before the ashes were cool the 

 company 's teams were delivering lumber to 

 build shacks for temporary shelter. 



At the time of the Canadian Forestry 

 Convention in Vancouver in 190G and like- 

 wise in the meeting in Victoria in 1912 Mr. 

 Alexander took an active part and aided 

 much in making these conventions success- 

 ful. Mr. Alexander's loss is keenly felt and 

 by none more than by workers for the cause 

 of forest conservation. 



Four children survive — E. H. H. Alexan- 

 der, the well-known Vancouver lumberman; 

 Fred. W. Alexander, secretary of the Pacific 

 Lumber Inspection Bureau, Seattle ; H. O. 

 Alexander, of Vancouver; and Mrs. J. L. G. 

 Abbott, also of Vancouver. 



FIGHTING FOREST INSECTS. 



Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entomo- 

 logist, in forecasting the work of the 

 Branch for 1915 says in regard to insects 

 affecting forest and shade trees: 



' ' In view of the widespread character of 

 the depredations of bark-beetles in British 

 Columbia and the serious losses they are 

 causing our investigations will be extended 

 northward from the regions covered during 

 the past two seasons. Further studies will 

 be made in Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C., 

 on the insects responsible for the loss of so 

 many trees in that natural reserve. It is also 

 hoiked that au opportunity will be aft'orded 

 of studying forest insect conditions in the 

 Peace Eiver region from which we have 

 evidence that would indicate the need of 

 such an investigation. A complete study of 

 the parasites of the spruce budworm which 

 has been ver}' abundant in eastern Canada 

 during the last five years is being made 

 and the work will be continued in conjunc- 

 tion with work on other 2iarasitic insects 

 in New Brunswick. It is also proposed to 

 devote some attention to certain special in- 

 sects affecting forest and shade trees in 

 eastern Canada, such as the bronze birch 

 borer, etc." 



EXPORTING CHRISTMAS TREES. 



Following is an extract from a letter 

 from Mr. Sidney Downer of the Macleod 

 Pulp Company, Liverpool, Nova Scotia: 



"There is one point in connection with 

 the forests in this section which we would 

 like to bring to your attention. That is the 

 agents of certain firms in the LTnited 



States come down on the Halifax and 

 Southwestern Railway on the shore and 

 take off every year from 30,000 to 50,000 

 Christmas trees. These trees range from 

 three feet to 15 feet. This has been going 

 on now for the past three or four years 

 and if it continues, all the young trees 

 will in time be cut down. There is no way 

 in which the forests can be conserved bet- 

 ter than by the stopping of this practice. 

 We would have no objection to cutting 

 Christmas trees for local purposes but 

 when it comes to export then it is time 

 the Association took this matter up and 

 used its prestige in prohibiting it in the 

 future. ' ' 



Different opinions are held by members 

 of the Canadian Forestry Association in 

 regard to cutting Christmas trees, some 

 holding that if it is properly done in the 

 way of thinning it is not an injurious prac- 

 tice. It was brought up at the Ottawa 

 convention in 1912 and a very general reso- 

 lution passed. We should be glad to hear 

 the views of members on the extent and 

 probable damage of this export of Christ- 

 mas trees. — Ed. C. F. J. 



THE WOODS OF WESTERMAIN. 



Enter these enchanted woods, 



You who dare. 

 Nothing harms beneath the leaves 

 More than waves a swimmer cleaves. 

 Toss your heart up with the lark. 

 Foot at peace with mouse and worm, 



Fair you fare. 

 Only at a dread of dark 

 Quaver, and they quit their form: 

 Thousand eyeballs under hoods 



Have you by the hair. 

 Enter these enchanted woods. 



You who dare. 



— George Meredith. 



$500 FOR SIXTEEN WILLOW TREES. 



The Toronto Globe of Feb. 23 had the fol- 

 lowing about certain trees on Toronto 

 Island, a part of the city much used for 

 summer residences : 



"Mr. Justice Middleton yesterday award- 

 ed Mrs. Grace N. Moore $500 for sixteen 

 willow trees that had been removed from 

 her lot at Centre Island. Figured out on a 

 hard-hearted, coldly calculating basis, taking 

 a tree as only so nmch wood without charac- 

 ter, a nurseryman estimated the trees as 

 worth 25 cents for each inch of their di- 

 ameter. Pressed, he consented to the addi- 

 tion of another 25 cents for ornamental rea- 

 sons. 



"It seems that men employed by James 

 Hutchinson, Island Park Superintendent, 



