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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry251919amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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AMERICAN FORESTRY 1525 FOREIGN STUDENTS OF FORESTRY IN AMERICA STUDENTS from Sweden and the Philippines, both for advanced work, and other students from China and Canada have been sent to the United States to secure training in forestry, marking an advanced step in the in- ternational application of the principles of reforestation of barren areas, and the beginning of cooperative studies along reforestation lines between various nations. This acceleration of the training of men in the great out of
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FORESTRY MEN FROM FOREIGN SHORES AT SYRACUSE Reading from left to right: F. B. Mann, Lindsay, Ontario; A. E. F. Schard, Stoci<holni, Sweden; H, J. MacAloney, Halifax, N. S.; Mark Y. C. Hwang. Kiukiang, Qiina: Chia Choung Tong, Tien Tsin, Oiina and Luis J. Reyes, Manila, Pliilippine Islands. doors profession is the direct result of the war, which caused a realization of the need of the world for trees and timber. Six foreign students are registered this year at the New York State College of Forestry at Syra- cuse, four in undergraduate work, and two in advanced study, in addition to a larger entering class than has ever before been known in the New York institution. The foreign students come with an unusual record, par- ticularly in two instances, where they are sent by author- ization of foreign governments for advanced study. The six foreign students of the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse are: A. E. S. Schard, Swedish Royal Forest Service, American Scandinavian Founda- tion exchange fellow from Stockholm, in interchange with Henry M. Meloney, of the New York College, sent to Sweden by the Foundation. Luis J. Reyes, assistant Wood expert of the Philippine Forest Service,graduate of the Insular Forest School of the University of the Philip- pines, and for the last six years with the Philippine Forest Service. Mark Y. C. Hwang, Kiukiang, China, mem- ber of the junior class, sent here through authorization of the Chinese government, to learn how to assist in the re- forestation of China. Chia Choung Tong, Tientsin, China, a freshman here for study under the same condi- tions as Mr. Hwang. F. B. Mann, Lindsay, Ontario, member of the freshman class, in America to study for future practical work in the Dominion. NATURE IN THE NUDE 'T'HE frosts, the rains and the boisterous blasts have ■*• stripped the trees of their green robes of summer and they stand naked—but unashamed. The leafy tent which the big maple made in your door- yard last June is now but a tracery of twigs against the sky. Its delicate fret-work is for the most part as rigid and motionless as if stamped from steel, for it no longer invites the vagrant zephyrs for a romp, and even the northern gale drives through its skeletonized body with almost as little resistance as a ghost would offer. Yet it is still beautiful. We can now study the great limbs of which there was no hint beneath its summer drapery ; the huge, swelling muscles where the limb joins the trunk, the point of greatest strain. Note, too, in the case of the forest maple, the perfect balancing of weight, which is the secret of the straight, columnar bole. Observe how the oak throws out great, brawny, horizontal branches which suddenly turn and lift sky- ward, with an abrupt taper, in order that the multitudi- nous leaves of the growing season may receive their share of sunlight. The branches of the elm, on the other hand, shoot upward first and then turn their tips out- ward and downward, like a waterfall. But the same end is secured. If you learn the trees in the spring and summer, with leaf, flower and fruit as your guides, you must learn them all over again in the winter. It is a bit bafHing at first, for most botanical manuals seem to assume that trees are to be studied only when in verdure. But it's all the more fun for that. Now the only clues in your arboreal detective work are the bark, both as to texture and color; the habit of branching; the twigs, by their alternative or opposite position; the leaf scars and the shape, size and color of the buds, which some people may be surprised to learn are all finished before the first frost. But soon you come to recognize a tree just as you do a friend—instinctively, as it were, with no cognizance of details. The contour is sufficient, and you may in time rival James Russell Lowell, who implies in one of his poems that the etching against a moonlit sky enabled him to name any New England tree. And it is true that trees look more alike in summer than in winter. In their winter nakedness nothing is concealed; their individuality is blazoned to the discern- ing eye. The infinite variety of nature in accomplishing the same end is revealed. Trees, then, become more than trees to us . They be- come living entities, and we begin to imbue them with the aspirations and sentiments which we ourselves cher- ish. We begin to understand why John Muir was charged with thinking more of a tree than of a man, and we can enter into the spirit of John Bur- rough's reputed retort: "Well, why shouldn't he?"— (Reprinted by courtesy of the Chicago Evening Post.)

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