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even those who have thought that they were acquainted with 
their possibilities and promise. By visiting San Diego the 
average citizen will have all of these things brought to him 
in the most graphic form, and he will see more than he could 
well take in by years of hap-hazard travel. 
F. J. Dyer. 
TREE SEED NOTES 
The Northern Colorado Nursery Company is now clean¬ 
ing up Rocky Mountain tree seeds. They are shipping seeds 
this year to France, Germany and Denmark, as well as New 
York, Philadelphia, and other American cities. This firm 
has built up an extensive business in this line and they buy 
and gather all the native seeds that can be obtained. 
AMERICAN FORESTRY CO.’S NEW MANAGER 
Dr. Frederick W. Hamilton, recently President of Tufts 
and Jackson Colleges, has re-entered the business field from 
which he withdrew several years ago for professional work as 
an educator, and has taken the position of General Manager 
of the American Forestry Company. 
As a young man. Dr. Hamilton’s successful business career 
combined with h’s broad education early brought him to the 
front. For many years he was a trustee of Tufts College 
and later became its President, keeping at the same time other 
high positions in the educational world, including member¬ 
ship of the Massachusetts State Board of Education. 
The success and rapid growth of the American Forestry 
Company, with its “Little Tree Farms,’’ open a field of 
unusual opportunity to a man of Dr. Hamilton’s caliber, in 
the combination which forestry offers of the commercial and 
the cBSthetic, and it is, therefore, with much enthusiasm that 
Dr. Hamilton has associated himself with the Company, and 
taken up his new duties. 
This affiliation will allow Mr. Theodore F. Borst, Forest 
Engineer of the Company, to devote his energies more ex¬ 
clusively to the professional side of the prosperous industry 
of which he was the founder. 
Dr. Hamilton will from now on make his headquarters at 
the offices of the American Forestry Company at 15 Beacon 
Street, Boston, Mass. 
The American Forestry Company is to be congratulated 
upon obtaining the services of a man who has made a marked 
success in the fields both of business and education. 
The man that solves the publicity question even in a 
minor degree is the most successful. If you have a specially 
good stock of any particular thing let the readers of the 
National Nurseryman know it. 
THE STARK ORCHARD BOOK 
This booklet published by the Stark Bros. Nurseries and 
Orchards Co., Louisiana, Mo., is offered free upon application 
to a reasonable number of subscribers to the National 
Nurseryman. 
It is a book of 3 2 pages exclusively devoted to the planting 
and care of trees. It is wonderfully terse, practical and 
complete, with illustrations that do illustrate. 
It is all kernel and no chaff and the source guarantees the 
reliability of the information it conveys. 
NEW PLAN OF SEED EXTRACTION FROM PINE 
• CONES 
The Forest Service is experimenting with new ways of 
extractingthe seed from the pine cones cheaply and efficiently. 
The policy is to collect seed in good seasons and in localities 
where an abundant crop has been produced. Thousands of 
bushels are gathered in one place and from these the seed has 
in the past been extracted by the slow process of heating the 
cones artificially to make them expand, when the seed is 
shaken out, collected, and cleaned. When conducted in the 
winter on a large scale the work is greatly delayed by the 
difficulty of securing plenty of hot air, and at the same time 
keeping it dry. The cones give off their moisture and soon 
surcharge the air to saturation and the admittance of fresh 
air lowers the temperature below the point of effectiveness. 
For these reasons the capacity of even large plants is usually 
limited to turning out from one hundred to one hundred and 
fifty bushels per day. During the last season the Service has 
been experimenting with modifications of a grain threshing 
machine and has been successful in District i this summer in 
threshing white pine seed from the cones when the latter were 
partially dry. It is thought that by further modifying an 
arrangement of the teeth in the cylinder,;seeds may be success¬ 
fully threshed from cones like yellow pine, Douglas fir, and 
even lodgepole pine. If this proves possible the capacity of a 
seed extracting plant can be increased to ten times its former 
output. The chief difficulty to overcome is the cracking and 
spoiling of the seeds during the process of threshing. A small 
experimental plant on the Kaniksu National Forest was 
installed this spring and produced results which are greatly 
encouraging. Very little harm was done to the seed and the 
cones were handled at the rate of one thousand bushels per 
day where formerly one hundred and fifty bushels was a good 
day’s work .—American Forestry. 
HONORING AN APPLE 
An interesting ceremony occurred near Morrisburg, 
Ontario, June 8. A monument was unveiled to an apple tree. 
The farmers of Dundas Co., Ont., raised the money by popu¬ 
lar subscription and placed a marble stone close to the spot 
where the original McIntosh Red apple tree grew. The 
old tree stood for over a century and then fell. The Toronto 
Daily Mail gives the following bit of history: 
About IIS years ago Mr. John McIntosh, who came to 
Canada with the United States Loyalists, and settled in 
Matilda Township, found a number of young apple trees 
while clearing a place for a home. These he preserved. One 
of them produced fruit of such superior color and quality 
that he named it McIntosh Red. It bore an abundance of 
fruit and soon attracted the attention of men who could 
appreciate its worth and possibilities. His son Allan propa¬ 
gated from it, and commenced to disseminate the variety. In 
recent years it has been widely circulated, and now is planted 
in all parts of the continent where dessert apples flourish. In 
1893 the old tree was partly injured by fire, but continued to 
bear on one side until 1908, when it failed forever. On the 
old McIntosh homestead, due honor is being done to it and to 
its discoverer in the unveiling of a monument. The occasion 
is a deserving tribute to both. 
