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sponded vigorously until the follow- 

 ing spring when they were trans- 

 planted to a sod pasture on a north- 

 western slope. The little trees adapt- 

 ed themselves quickly to their new 

 circumstances and the total loss since 

 the original purchase of the two- 

 thousand was two hundred. Two 

 years later, 7,000 additional pines 

 W'Cre placed directly in their perma- 

 nent positions without being nurtured 

 for one season in the nursery row. 

 Most of the seedlings died and have 

 been twice replaced. 



This and other practical experi- 

 ences would indicate that seedlings 

 have to be carefully handled for a 

 year in nursery rows before they will 

 accept the conditions of the open 

 sandy field as a permanent location. 



WORTHY EXAMPLE SET BY 

 LATE MR. J. C. BROWNE. 



Death this year has taken a heavy 

 toll of the friends of forest conserva- 

 tion and it is with deep regret that we 

 chronicle the passing away on April 

 10 at his residence in Ottawa of ]Mr. 

 J. C. Browne, who for some years past 

 had been connected with the firm of 

 Fraser & Co. Mr. Browne was one 

 of those men who have made the 

 Anglo-Saxon race what it is. Modest, 

 capable, courageous and of sterling 

 integrity he never advertised himself, 

 l)ut on the other hand once men got 

 to know him they never failed to ap- 

 preciate his worth. Born in the old 

 city of Quebec in 1847 he began his 

 business life with the Union Forward- 

 ing Company and later became a lum- 

 ber broker and in this way was 

 brought into touch with Ottawa lum- 

 ber firms, which connection brought 

 him to Ottawa in 1899. After the 

 great fire of 1900 Mr. Browne was 

 administrator and treasurer of the 

 Ottawa Fire Relief Fund and it is 

 significant that his last public work 

 was as administrator of the Ottawa 

 branch of the Canadian Patriotic 

 Fund. It is not necessary here to 



speak of Mr. Browne's business life 

 which is well known throughout this 

 part of Canada, but it may be pointed 

 out that he was one of the warmest 

 friends of the Canadian Forestry As- 

 sociation and a sincere believer in 

 forest conservation. He did his part 

 in the fight against forest fires, and 

 did it optimistically, holding that fires 

 wiiich rightly caused public appre- 

 hension and indignation today would 

 have passed, and did pass, unnoticed 

 thirty years ago. He was also an ad- 

 vocate of the training of our Indians 

 as fire-fighters and practised this, so 

 far as possible, on limits under his 

 charge. His reasonableness, his wil- 

 lingness to hear the other side, made 

 him a dangerous man to those who 

 advocated fake schemes or foolish 

 theories because he did not browbeat 

 them into further obstinacy but per- 

 suaded them of the better way. The 

 cause of forest conservation is the 

 poorer for his going and our hope is 

 that liis example may lead younger 

 men to step into his place. 



ELEMENTS OF FOBESTEY." 



' ' Elements of Forestry, ' ' by Frederick 

 Franklin Moon, M.F., Professor of Forest 

 Engineering at the New York State Col- 

 lege of Forestry, and Nelson Courtlandt 

 Brown, M.F., Professor of Forest Utiliza- 

 tion at the same institution, is a hand- 

 somely printed and bound work of nearly 

 four hundred pages designed to act as a 

 textbook, broad in its scope and contain- 

 ing general information on all phases of 

 the subject. That the book well fulfills the 

 objects of its authors is clearly evident. 

 The presentation is singularly lucid and 

 thorough, so much so that any adult reader 

 may by conscientious i:)erusal jilace him- 

 self in intelligent touch with the science 

 and practice of forestry. The book has 

 been planned to make the study of forestry 

 as interesting as possible by means of ex- 

 cellent illustrations and a cleverly gradu- 

 ateil arrangement of the instruction. It is 

 published through the Kenouf Publishing 

 Company of Montreal. 



There are seven spruces in the 

 Ignited States. Four are confined to 

 the west ; two to the east ; while one, 

 white spruce, has a continent-wide 

 distribution. 



