HON. CHARLES M. Dow, ADOLPH LEWISOHN, In Time of War, Prepare for Peace! FINANCE COMMITTEE ISAAC N. SELIGMAN, Chairman, DR. EDWARD L. PARTRIDGE, 1 William St., New York City. New York City. A. A. ANDERSON, New York City. VOLUNTEER for the better forests Campaign. A vital feature of any program of ECONOMIC FORESIGHT Annual Membership $2.00 Contributing Membership $5.00 Life Membership $50.00 Please make remittances payable to New York State Forestry Association. Membership fee includes subscription to “NEW YORK FORESTRY" To the Secretary, NEW YORK STATE FORESTRY ASSOCIATION, Chamber of Commerce, Syracuse 191 "THE WRITER,” the pioneer magazine for literary workers, established in 1887, and more helpful now than ever to all who write. The Writer prints practical articles on the methods of authorship and kindred subjects, news of the literary and publishing worlds, personal gossip about authors, helpful hints and suggestions for writers, and a full reference list of literary articles in current periodicals. VALUABLE NEW FEATURES are "The Writer's Directory of Periodicals," which gives the addresses of publications that buy manuscripts, with information about their requirements, furnished by the editors, and the department, "The Manuscript Market,' which gives information as to the present special needs of periodicals, coming directly from the editors, together with announcements of manuscript prize offers. Monthly changes and additions keep the information up to date. Another new feature is a department devoted to Advertisement Writing. The Writer is an inspiration to its readers, gives them practical advice, helps them to do better work, and shows them where they can sell their manuscripts. Send fifteen cents for a sample copy, or $1.50 for a year's subscription. THE WRITER PUBLISHING CO. For quite a few years, I have been intending to write you to tell you how much the Bulletin means to me. It is one of the active links I have with my old School life, in which I was and am still very much interested. If the time ever comes when the Bulletin can not come to me with you and your vivid style back of it, I am going to be very lonesome. CHW/FC Very truly yours, C. H. WARFIELD, OCTOBER נו NEW YORK STATE FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 1917 Published Quarterly at Syracuse by the New York State Forestry Association Entered as second-class matter February 29, 1916, at the post office at Syracuse, New York, under the act of March 3, 1879. TH FOREST WEEK NUMBER HIS issue of New York Forestry contains a few of the briefer papers which were read during "Forest Week" at the Lake Placid Club, observed during the week of September third, but does not propose to give the detailed proceedings of the gatherings. Other papers equally valuable and interesting will be printed in later numbers of the magazine. Contributed articles of any length up to 2000 words, and communications to "Viewpoints" are always welcomed. The editors and the Association, however, are not responsible for any of the views expressed by contributors. VOL. IV OCTOBER, 1917 THE TREE FRIENDS OF JOHN BURROUGHS By Dr. Clara Barrus No. 3 "There they stand as they stood before I was born, and as they will stand after I am gone-dear, patient maples, with their rough bark and their sweet hearts, yielding up their life blood for us.”—John Burroughs. A soliloquy never before published. S one goes about with John Burroughs in his boyhood haunts on the home farm in the Catskills, one sees how intimately trees have entered into his life. Perhaps closest to his heart are the old apple trees he "shinned up" as a boy, dreamed under as a youth, and dreams and writes under in his advanced years; yes, and still "shins up," on occasion, for the other day when he was puzzled about a bird's nest, he could not rest, though he is past eighty, until he had climbed the tree and satisfied himself as to the identity of the birdlings it contained. How many harvests these apple trees have yielded him! As a boy he willingly gathered the fruit in the fall for the apple bins in the cellar, and the old apple hole in the ground back of the house; year after year he helped stow away the fragrant, toothsome harvest, and during the long winter months, year after year, he did his share of eating them, and then, many years after he wrote the Apple essay that was also gathered from those orchard trees—one of the most delectable of all his essays-it fairly makes the mouth water to read it, and one has to throw aside his book and run down cellar for an apple, if one is fortunate enough to have a cellar with apples in it. And still in his old age he goes to the old trees for shelter as he writes, and takes from them the title for his latest book-"Under the Apple Trees." His poem, "In Blooming Orchards," was also gathered under the gnarled and twisted trees: |