Fungi Influence Trees' Welfare
Dr. A. B. Hatch Writes
Significance of Minute
Plant Life
session by nursery-raised stock
of, fungi incapable of survival
in new sites. Often fungi are
more exacting than are trees.
Embodies. Experience
Published by the Black Rock
Forest, New York, the book
'presents results of nine years'
experimentation and study in
the United States and Europe
which support the theory that
fungi
trees,
If early Amer
frustrated in atl
tablish trees from i
ries lived today, 1
would be soJved i
published by Dr.
of the university :
estry. Their seeds
duce trees because
Contain the kind
minute plant lift
manded.
One of nature':
Hatch explains, i
largest of living
parasites upon mil
gi. He points out
percentage of p1
ures  are probably
with legumes and nodule bact-
can ^ pioneers.eria, are inseperable. Dr. Hatch
empts   to   es-contends  that  the timber   cul-
seeds on prai-tUre   act   of   1873   was     futile
their   ptobriiniaxgeiy because of man's ignor-
11   a  n     "   l   ance  of mechanics of tree nu-
A.   B.   Hatcbtrition.
school of for-    commenting upon Dr. Hatch's!
1 a led 1 > T    '" conclusions,     Professor     Henry'
E   -°;i  d)r!  no!lSchmitz,   University   of     Min-
inS'1—inesota   school   of  forestry,   de-
dH clares   that   the   results   "will
influence   greatly   many   silvi-
'■   Dr cultural   practices."   This   proof
trees. ^   fungi-tree   relationship   will
"'"make possible the extension of
' Hthe range of existing trees and
■,.'";" prove    helpful   in      conducting
'•l!l_lnursery and reforestation to se-
pos cure maximum survival.