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VOL. XXIII 
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H. C. WHITAKER, Viee-President and General Manager O. H. SAMPLE, Secretary-Treasurer 
FEBRUARY, 1914 No. 12 
EDITORIAL 
Practical Encouragement To Tree Planting 
The Massachusetts Forestry Association has adopted a 
unique and interesting method of stimulating tree planting by 
offering a prize to the town or city in that state which prop- 
erly plants this spring the greatest number of shade trees 
in proportion to population. The prize will be the free plant- 
ing of a mile of street or road in the winning town with shade 
trees at least seven feet high. The association in offering the 
substantial prize of two hundred trees does not do so with 
the feeling that the prize itself will be the chief incentive in 
reviving shade-tree planting in this state. Many towns have 
not planted any shade trees for years. Arbor Day has failed 
of late to create the desired effect, and the results have been 
very unsatisfactory. There is something about working in 
unison which lends a spirit to the work, and a little feeling 
of rivalry is expected to result in unusual activity among 
the members of this association in nearly every town of the 
state. The rules of this contest are based on the population, 
thus giving the small town an equal chance with the large 
Horticulture at San 
Many features of horticulture, planting and landscape gar- 
dening will provide exhibits of interest to those engaged in 
outdoor improvement at the Panama Exposition in San Fran- 
cisco in 1915. The thousands of great trees which are being 
brought from every country in the world to be transplanted 
at the exposition are scientifically treated by experts to pre- 
vent their dying. The side roots are first cut and side-boards 
placed down the cuts. Six months later, when the tree has 
become accustomed to receiving nourishment only from its 
bottom roots, these are cut and a bottom board attached to 
the side roots, making a great box. The tree is then hoisted 
by derrick and shipped by land or sea to San Francisco, 
where it is replanted in special soil brought from the Sacra- 
mento River, seventy miles away. By a special system of 
rotation originated by John McLaren, superintendent of San 
Francisco parks, every flower of the million plants of the 
tropical garden at the exposition will be in full bloom during 
Editorial 
The American Forestry Association has members in every 
state in the Union, in every province in Canada, and in every 
civilized and semi-civilized country in the world. It has a 
total membership of 8,000. 
On the Pocatello forest, Idaho, 230,000 trees were planted 
during the past year, and almost half a million in the past 
three years, fully three-fourths of which are alive and doing 
well. 
There are somewhat more than 500 recognized tree species 
in the United States, of which 100 are commercially important 
for timber. Of the 500 recognized species, 300 are repre- 
sented in the government’s newly acquired Appalachian for- 
ests. All American species, except a very few subtropical 
ones on the Florida keys and in extreme southern Texas, are 
to be found in one or another of the national forests. 
A rancher has applied for the rental of 320 acres on the 
city. To the average town this prize is well worth working 
for, and the satisfaction of winning is worth more than the. 
intrinsic value of the trees. Many towns are already planning 
tree-planting campaigns this year and are expected to enter 
this contest with real spirit. The prize will be awarded by a 
competent committee appointed by the association, which will 
visit the town having the highest per cent to check up the 
work, and if the planting is found unsatisfactory, the com- 
mittee will have power to consider the city or town next 
highest in the list. The trees must be of reasonable size and 
the work must be properly done in order to win the prize. In 
case the winning town does not have a mile of street in one 
stretch which has not been planted to trees, the committee 
may plant two hundred trees in different parts of the town or 
city. The plan is well calculated to stimulate an interest in 
tree planting and is suggestive of effort that might be organ- 
ized in other states and other communities. 
Francisco Exposition 
the ten months the exposition will be open to the public. A 
duplicate of every plant will be kept in the nurseries, green- 
houses and lath-houses, and as one in the open ceases to 
bloom a forced plant will be substituted for it. More than 
25,000 cubic yards of rich soil was towed from Collinsville, 
on the Sacramento River, to the grounds, to be used in the 
tropical garden which will form the setting for the great 
exhibit palaces. A reproduction of the Yellowstone National 
Park will be one of the features of the concession district. A 
standard gauge railroad will run through the concession, 
taking visitors seemingly through the entire park. In the 
center of the concession reproductions of the geysers and 
springs which have made the Yellowstone the wonder of the 
world will be set upon a great revolving table. The cost of 
the concession is estimated at $550,000 and it will be one of 
the most complete of its kind ever built. 
Notes| 
Pike national forest, Colorado, to be usee in connection with 
other private lands for raising elk as a commercial venture. 
The state university lands in Arizona ai e to be lumbered 
under a co-operative agreement between the government and 
the state land commission. Arizona is the nrst state in the 
Southwest and one of few in the country to 'ut its timbered 
lands on forestry principles. 
The legislatures of Virginia and South Carolina are con- 
sidering advanced forestry legislation. 
The Kaibab and the Coconino national forests adjoin each 
other. Yet it takes from two to three days to go from one 
to the other across the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. 
B. E. Fernow, dean of the forest school of the University 
of Toronto, and Bristow Adams, of the U. S. Forest Service, 
have just been elected president and secretary, respectively, 
of the Society of American Foresters, the only organization 
of professional foresters in the western hemisphere. 
