SUGAR MAPLES. One of the very finest deciduous-leaved trees of North America is the tall Sugar Maple. It can truly be called the noblest of all the Maples. NO BETTER VARIETY CAN BE USED FOR STREET, PARK, OR LAWN PLANTING, 7 to as its growth is rapid and straight, its form symmetrical, For this reason it is well adapted for planting near build- 8 ft.; trans., 8 to 9 ft.; trans., PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING LOW PRICES. 9 to 10 ft.; trans., 10 to 12 ft.; 14 to 11⁄2 in.; trans., 12 to 14 ft.; 11⁄2 to 14 in.; trans., I 75 15 00 125 00 2 25 20 00 150 00 3 50 4 00 30 00 35 00 14 to 15 ft.; 134 to 2 in.; trans., Larger trees, 2 to 21⁄2 in. diam.; trans., ANDORRA NURSERIES, WILLIAM WARNER HARPER, CHESTNUT HILL, PHILA., PA. 95 VOL. IX. PENNSYLVANIA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION, 1012 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. Entered at the Philadelphia Post-Office as second class matter. CONTENTS. 33 Pennsylvania Forestry Legislation 34 ვნ 37 37 39 39 40 42 45 45 45 46 46 M EDITORIALS. CORE forest fires, more financial losses in property, homes and industries wrecked, and many thousand trees checked in their growth or destroyed by devouring flame is the record for Pennsylvania in the spring of 41 1903. To the citizen whose home, mill or oilwell went down as the result of forest fire, and to the owner of woodlands whose future possible returns for money invested are destroyed, there is small satisfaction in the knowledge that there are laws on the statute-books of Pennsylvania providing penalties for setting fire to forests and making provision for discovering the culprits, as well as for checking the conflagrations. Even with the best of laws, rigidly enforced, the State cannot expect entire immunity from forest fires; but the problem is to know which of the designated officials were derelict and by whom their full duty was performed. We are as anxious to praise the latter as to condemn the former. When a man accepts official position, and especially where he seeks it, he is very prop The attention of Nurserymen and others is called to the advantages of FOREST LEAVES as an advertising medium. Rates will be furnished on application. The Pennsylvania Forestry Association, FOUNDED IN JUNE, 1886, Labors to disseminate information in regard to the necessity and methods of forest culture and preservation, and to secure the enactment and enforcement of proper forest protective laws, both State and National. Annual membership fee, One dollar. Life membership, Fifteen dollars. Neither the membership nor the work of this Association is intended erly expected to fulfill its functions; and, while Finance, W. S. Harvey, Chairman; William L. Elkins, Dr. Henry M. Fisher, W. W. Frazier, Charles E. Pancoast, and J. Rodman Paul. Membership, Albert B. Weimer, Chairman; Mrs. George F. Baer, Edwin Swift Balch, Hon. Lucien W. Doty, Charles W. Freedley, Dr. J. T. Rothrock, W. W. Scranton, Dr. Samuel Wolfe, and Hon. S. P. Wolverton. Law, Hon. W. N. Ashman, Chairman; Henry Budd, Charles Hewett, and John A. Siner. Publication, John Birkinbine, Chairman; F. L. Bitler, Alfred Paschall, and Harrison Souder. Work, Mrs. Brinton Coxe, Chairman; Mrs. George T. Heston, Miss E. L. Lundy, Mrs. John P. Lundy, William S. Kirk, and Abraham S. Schropp. County Organization, Samuel Marshall, Chairman: Eugene Ellicott, James C. Haydon, Dr. J. Newton Hunsberger, and Richard Wood. OFFICE OF THE ASSOCIATION, 1012 WALNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA. he does only his duty, we are pleased to commend him. But no limit of condemnation is justified in discussing the failure of one who, having striven for an office, wilfully neglects its duties. The warm, sunny days of spring, which dry the leaves of the preceding fall, are the times when those to whose care the protection of forests is delegated should be most watchful; and the fact that so many large fires devastated, practically simultaneously, areas in various sections of the State indicates that some of the officials were derelict. J. B. * ries. He has visited mountains and plains, fertile valleys and desert wastes, growing fields and forests; he has seen great water-courses in flood and the beds of large streams nearly dry. In a succession of addresses, he has taken advantage of what appears to be every opportunity to impress upon his hearers the necessity and importance of preserving and protecting forests, advancing irrigation interests and conserving stream-flow. Judging the President by his strongly-expressed views, by his approval of Congressional acts and by his official messages, he may be considered in the forefront of forestry advocates; and, with a leader so pronounced, the movement to protect our remaining forests and propagate new growths should make rapid advances. While such a condition is gratifying and encouraging, it calls upon the friends of forestry to use discretion in all efforts to advance it. The knowledge that the Legislatures and Governors of Pennsylvania and other States, the Congress and the President of the United States, have shown an appreciation of forestry may fairly be assumed as indicating that any well-considered action for the protection of forests and for the creation of forest reserves may be expected to have strong official support. But efforts to use the cause of forest improvement for political or individual gain or commercial advantage will result in disaster to forestal advancement. While welcoming the support of all influences which will advance the interest of forestry, we owe to these influences the assurance that the friends of forestry are on the alert to prevent the movement becoming a partisan factor or the lever to advance personal interests. J. B. * * * * SINCE the last issue of FOREST LEAVES, the Council of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association has lost, by death, two of its most active members, Mr. Theodore D. Rand, of Radnor, Delaware County, and Mr. Jos. W. Johnson, of Philadelphia. Both of these true men had shown by pronounced devotion their interest in the cause of forestry, and both had been prominent among those whose counsel and advice were most potent in guiding the Association in its work. The death of two such able champions will prove a severe loss to their fellow-workers, but others must now come forward to take up the duties and fill the places left vacant by our departed friends. The efforts of the friends of forestry are not for the present, but for the future ; few, if any, who read these lines will be spared to see the full beneficence of their efforts, and this work will not cease because two of its best friends have gone to their eternal rest. We may truly mourn the loss we have sustained, but the memory of our co-laborers should inspire us to greater effort. J. B. Pennsylvania Forestry Legislation. IN N our last issue we gave the text of H. R. Bills Nos. 44 and 47; the former conferring upon persons employed in caring for forestry. reservations the powers of a constable to arrest, without warrant, persons breaking the laws on these reservations or lands adjacent, and the latter authorizing the appointment of a Deputy Forestry Commissioner and an additional clerk; both of these acts having passed the Legislature, and been approved by the Governor. Mention was also made of H. R. Bill No. 138; this was amended, passed by the Legislature, and is now a law. The act is as follows: House Bill No. 138. An Act to limit the amount of money expended each year. by the State Forestry Reservation Commission in the purchase of lands for the Commonwealth. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, etc., That from and after the passage of this act, the amount of money expended by the State Forestry Reservation Commission for the purchase of lands in any one fiscal year shall not exceed the sum of three hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That contracts heretofore made for the purchase of land by the State Forestry Reservation Commission shall not be affected by this act. All proceeds derived from the lands purchased by the said Commission shall be paid into the State Treasury, and shall be held as a special fund, and shall be paid by the State Treasurer to the said Commission, from time to time, upon warrants drawn by the Commissioner of Forestry and countersigned by the AuditorGeneral, for the purpose of assisting in defraying the necessary expenses of protecting and improving the said lands, or for the purchase of additional land. herewith are hereby repealed. Approved the 15th day of April, A.D., 1903. There was also another act, known as H. R. No. 361, which was introduced in the Legislature, and is now a law, reading: House Bill No. 361. An Act to empower the Commissioner of Forestry and the Forestry Reservation Commission to give street railway companies the privilege to construct, maintain and operate their lines of railway over, along and upon public highways within, or bordering on, forest reservations owned by the Commonwealth. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, etc., That the Commissioner of Forestry and the Forestry Reservation Commission are hereby authorized and empowered to give to street railway companies, duly incorporated under the laws of this Commonwealth, upon such terms and subject to such restrictions and regulations as said Commissioner and Commission may deem proper, the privilege to construct, maintain and operate their lines of railway over, along and upon public highways, now laid out and in actual use, which lie within or border on any forest reservations, now owned or hereafter to be acquired by the Commonwealth, whenever, in the judgment of the said Commissioner and Commission, the interests of the Commonwealth in the said reservations shall be benefited thereby. Approved the 15th day of April, A.D., 1903. SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER. Two other acts which have just been approved are House Bill No. 33 and Senate Bill No. 329. House Bill No. 33. An Act directing the Commissioner of Forestry to erect buildings on the Mont Alto Reservation, or to purchase lands and buildings adjacent to the said reservation, wherein to provide instruction in forestry, to prepare forest wardens for the proper care of the State Forestry Reservation lands, and making an appropriation therefor. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, etc., That the Commissioner of Forestry is hereby directed, under the advice of the State Forestry Reservation Commission, to purchase suitable buildings and lands adjacent to the Mont Alto State Forestry Reservation, or to erect buildings on said Reservation, at a cost not to exceed six thousand dollars, and to establish and provide therein and on said Reservation practical instruction in Forestry, to prepare forest wardens for the proper care of the State Forestry Reservation lands, the said instruction not to cost a sum exceeding ten thousand dollars for the two fiscal years ending June 1st, one thousand nine hundred and five; and the sum of sixteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of moneys not otherwise appropriated for said purposes, to be paid by warrant drawn by the Auditor-General upon resolution of the State Forestry Reservation Commission. Approved the 13th day of May, A.D., 1903. SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER. Senate Bill No. 329. An Act making an appropriation for the erection and fitting of a sanatorium, and for the maintenance thereof, on the State Forestry Reservation, at Mont Alto, in Franklin or Adams Counties, and authorizing the Commissioner of Forestry to make and enforce rules and regulations governing the same. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, etc., That immediately after the passage of this act the Commissioner of Forestry shall select a suitable site for the erection of a sanatorium for poor consumptives within the bounds of the State Forestry Reservation, located near Mont Alto, in Franklin County. He shall have authority to select and decide upon a design for said sanatorium, and the material out of which it shall be constructed, and shall have full power to make contracts for its construction; but he shall make no contracts in excess of the appropriation herein named, the total cost of the said sanatorium and its maintenance for the two fiscal years, beginning June 1st, one thousand nine hundred and three, shall not exceed the sum of eight thousand dollars. Sec. 2. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act the sum of eight thousand dollars is hereby specifically appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the said appropriation to be paid by the State Treasurer upon warrants drawn by the Auditor-General, from time to time, as the work progresses, upon specifically itemized vouchers approved by the Commissioner of Forestry and the Governor. Sec. 3. That after the completion of said sanatorium the same shall be under the control and management of the Commissioner of Forestry, who is hereby empowered to take control of said sanatorium and make and enforce such rules and regulations in relation thereto, and the use thereof, as in his judgment shall be deemed best and proper. Approved the 15th day of May, A.D., 1903. SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER. For a long time the Bureau of Forestry has been urging State investigations of forest lands. California has appropriated $15,000 for an examination of the forests of the State. A report on the forests of Texas has been prepared, under direction of the bureau, and will probably form the basis for forest legislation in that State. Two years ago an examination of the forests of Vermont was made, and the work was continued more recently by Prof. C. D. Howe. New Hampshire, alarmed by the heavy cutting in the White Mountains, has appropriated $5000 for an examination of that region, and other States may ask for help. |