PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 433 
PLANTING MILLIONS OF TREES. 
The author does not con..ic his efforts to the merely literary pursuit of writ- 
ing articles for his journal. 
He is actively engaged in directing the work of planting forests, to bring 
them into a successtul timber-producing stage. 
Swiftly moving from one plantation to another, selecting the lands, procur- 
ing the trees, employing labor, planting the forests, his time is fully occupied. 
The work is going on in the South all winter, planting ten thousand trees 
daily. By the first of May, 1905, there was considerably more than a million 
trees planted in twenty different locations and in twelve States, besides the 
great number of trees heing planted by individual land owners through his 
advice, amounting to fully as many additional trees. 
A better idea may be had of the quantity by estimating how long it would 
take one man to count and handle these trees. 
Working eight hours a day, and merely picking up one tree at a time, ten 
each minute, it would require eight months’ constant labor to thus handle and 
count a million trees. 
And vet this enterprise has only made a beginning. The land owners, 
farmers, railways and manufacturers are just awakening to the fact that trees 
must be planted if we would have lumber and ties and wood to continue the 
industries of this great country a few brief years hence. 
