o every citizen of the Republic
who saw them.

"After a most delightfully well spent week, devoted almost entirely to
forestry productions, I was prepared to sum up my impressions of the
significance and value of the knowledge I had gained in my first
lesson. It was plain to me that the magnitude and importance of the
subject, was but little understood or appreciated, by the average
American citizen. I saw that our people were very much in need of some
great object lesson like the forestry exhibit of the Columbian
Exposition, to make them properly realize the immensity of our debt of
gratitude to Mother Nature for her munificent gift of trees to mankind.

"I shall now conclude my story of the Forestry Exposition, by naming
from the exhibit the following, as a few of the many things of use and
value, which we owe to our benefactors, the trees; things which are so
necessary to our comfort and happiness, which in so many ways, affect
the progress, welfare and civilization of the world's people.

"Among the more important gifts from the trees I shall place lumber and
shingles, used in the construction of houses, barns and all kinds of
habitable or industrial buildings; bridges, boats, ships and sailing
vessels of all kinds; furniture, fencing and a great variety of farming
utensils. Under the head of fuel, I may mention fire-wood and charcoal.
In the class of vehicles we have wagons and all kinds of carriages from
the stage coach to the pullman palace car. Some kind of lumber or timber
enters very largely into the construction of almost every kind of
machinery. In the miscellaneous group we find wood-alcohol, dye-wood,
medicinal barks, roots and galls; precious gums, resins and all of the
spices; the various kinds of excelsior used for packing, bedding and
upholstery; wood-pulp and paper, inlaid work, vegetable ivory, and
cocoanut shells; the entire series of willow ware, and wooden, or
hollow ware. In food products, we are confronted by a most astonishing
array of edible sprouts, berries, delicious fruits and nutritious nuts,
forming altogether a multitude of things which, in civilized life, we
could not possibly do without.

"In considering the impressions conveyed to our minds by growing trees,
which inherently possess a sturdy vitality, that can resist the
vicissitudes of passing ages; we instinctively recognize them as
nature's noblest gift to man. As majestic monarchs, in the empire of
plant life, they appeal to u