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fruited this in a limited way, I won't say it is or is not Cumberland, until 

 after fruiting it another season. I think Mr. Purdy is certainly too old in 

 years and experience, and occupying the position he does, has too much at 

 stake, to knowingly introduce an old strawberry under a new name. If the 

 Jumbo should prove distinct from the Cumberland and superior to it in any 

 one particular, I will prize it very highly, the Cumberland being one of my 

 favorites for family use and a near market. 



Atlantic— From the bogs of New Jersey. This is also a good plant, 

 though not quite equal to the two former in vigor. Fruit good size, good 

 color, good (juality, and, so far as tested, I think sufficiently firm to carry 

 well, even long distances. I have strong hopes of this proving an acquisi- 

 tion to our short list of good shippers. 



Cornelia -Originated by M. Crawford, of Ohio, and claimed by him to 

 be a very desirable late variety. So far as tested it has fully met my expecta- 

 tions ; plant resembling Atlantic very much, with a marked difference in 

 fruit. Fruit may be classed as large and very uniform ; quality fair. As to 

 its lateness, I can only say it proved later than any of my spring setting, 

 Jumbo not excepted. If Mr. Crawford had given it one more dip and 

 brought the color out a little brighter, this would have been an improve- 

 ment. 



Another season may possibly change my opinion of some or all these 

 varieties. 



FOREST TREE PLANTING ON THE PRAIRIES OF THE 



NORTHWEST. 



BY HON. GEORGE H. AVRIGHT, OF IOWA. 



In presenting the subject of forest tree planting on the prairies of the 

 Northwest, there are several important questions that present themselves to 

 the practical operator, and that we may fully understand the subject, we 

 name the following for present discussion : Latitude, longitude, altitude, 

 annual rainfall, season of the year of the greatest amount of rainfall, kind 

 of soil, and from what points of the compass are the prevailing winds dur- 

 ing the growing season. 



The planter of experience will consider all of these important factors 

 before he fully determines the mode of planting and the varieties of trees to 

 be used. When we consider the great variety of soils and different degrees 

 of fertility of the soil, the main distinctions are in altitude, the amount of 

 rainfall in some parts of the prairie regions as compared with other locali- 

 ties, the general humidity of the atmosphere, the dry, hot, scorching winds 

 that prevail in summer and the arctic cold of winter — the rainfall varying 

 from ten inches per annum in some portions of this vast territory to sixty 

 inches in others— it is then we begin to secure a ray of light upon the sub- 

 ject. 



