Brothers, from master planning for the roads and plant collections, to small details such as the selection of tree plantings on Commonwealth Avenue. In this career, Sargent came of age as a dendrologist and published extensively. His influence was felt nationally on the conservation of American forests (in particular the Catskills and Adirondacks). He was a member of the National Forest Commission (1896–97) under President Grover Cleveland, advising on the creation of 21 million acres of national forest reserves. In that position, he clashed with Gifford Pinchot: Sargent advocated for preserving the forests in a state of "wilderness", while Pinchot advocated for conserving the forests in a way that included "sustainable, productive" uses, including timber "harvests." He was chairman of a commission to examine the Adirondack forests and devise measures for their preservation in 1885. Sargent became professor of arboriculture at Harvard in 1879. He planned the Jesup Collection of North American Woods in the American Museum of Natural History of New York City in 1880. In 1888 he became editor and general manager of the weekly Garden and Forest, "a journal of horticulture, landscape art, and forestry". Garden and Forest was published in 10 volumes from 1888 to 1897 before being discontinued. In 1919 the first issue of the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum was published with Sargent as the editor-in-chief. He was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1896. Publications These include: Catalogue of the Forest Trees of North America (Washington, D. C., 1880); Pruning Forests and Ornamental Trees, translated from the French of A. Des Cars (Boston, 1881); Reports on the Forests of North America (Washington, 1884); The Woods of the United States, with an Account of their Structure, Qualities, and Uses (New York, 1885); and The Silva of North America (12 vols., Boston, 1882-'8). Legacy and honors In 1913, botanists Alfred Rehder & Ernest Henry Wilson published Sargentodoxa, a genus of flowering plants from China and Indo-China, belonging to the family Lardizabalaceae and was named in Charles Sprague Sargent's honour. After Sargent's death in 1927, at an Arbor Day memorial ceremony, Massachusetts Governor Fuller planted a white spruce on the grounds of the Massachusetts State House in his memory, and noted: Professor Sargent knew more about trees than any other living person. It would be hard to find anyone who did more to protect trees from the vandalism of those who