. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igog. The Amer i ca n Fl o r i s t. ins than 4,000,000 Christmas trees are used each year, one in every fourth family. If planted four feet apart they could be grown on loss than acres. This clearing of an area equal to a good-sized farm each Christmas should not be a subject of much worry, when it is re- membered that for lumber alone it is necessary to take timber from an area of more than 100,000 acres every day of the "It Is generally reaiized that a cer- .tain proportion of land must always
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igog. The Amer i ca n Fl o r i s t. ins than 4,000,000 Christmas trees are used each year, one in every fourth family. If planted four feet apart they could be grown on loss than acres. This clearing of an area equal to a good-sized farm each Christmas should not be a subject of much worry, when it is re- membered that for lumber alone it is necessary to take timber from an area of more than 100,000 acres every day of the "It Is generally reaiized that a cer- .tain proportion of land must always be used for forest growth, just as for other crops. Christmas trees are one form of this crop. There is no more reason for an' outcry against using land to grow Christmas trees than to grow flowers. The forest service upholds the Christmas tree custom, but recognizes at the same time, that the indiscriminate cutting of evergreens to supply the holiday trade has produced a bad effect upon many stands of merchautable kinds of trees in different sections of the country. Waste and destruction usually result when wood- lands are not uuder a proper system of forest management. Foresters say that it is not by denying ourselves the whole- some pleasure of having a bit of nature in the home at Christmas that the prob- lem of conserving the forests will-be solved, but by learning how to use the forests wisely and properly. The ravages through forest fires must be checked, the many avenues of waste of timber iu its travel from the woods to the mill and thence to the market must be closed, and almost numberless important problems de- mand attention before the Christmas ; Nursery Loses Tree Suit. A judgment for $2, was given Dr. .T. 1. Triplett. of Virginia, against the Knoxville Nursery Co. iu the United States circuit court November 21. This is the famous "peach tree" suit in which Congressman N. W. Hale, who is presi- dent of the company, is interested. It has f
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