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is rapid, and a grove, if felled at the proper season, will reproduce itself 

 from suckers. It is to be hoped that its cultivation may l»e again tried. 



Arthur Bryant. 



Arthur Bryant, Sen., read a paper on the same subject, mostly 

 in relation to the destruction of the locust by the borer. His remedy 

 was the j)lanting of the black walnut, butternut, and other useful trees. 

 The two named would not cost more than corn for four or five years, 

 while ash, larch, and some others might cost for five years fifty to sixty 

 dollars per acre. The planting of deciduous trees should be four feet 

 each way, and conifers eight feet. He would plant llie Lombardy pop- 

 lar between the evergreens, in order to compel an upright growth, and, 

 after a few years, cut out the poplars. The common black cherry is also 

 a valuable tree. He would not use the black walnut ;is a screen to the 

 orchard. 



Mr. Iv. K. ScoFit.i.Li took decided exceptions to the planting of the 

 poplar among the conifers, or, in short. aniouLj an\ nther trees. 



Mr. Bryant stated that the common sugar -maple was superior to 

 the black sugar-maple for the making of sugar. Sugar may be made 

 from the silver maple, and also the ash-leaf maple The red or common 

 soft maple is not common in the State, while the silver maple is com- 

 mon in almost all of our bottom woodlands. 



In the planting of the European larch, they may be planted four feet 

 apart, and not thinned until the trees are large enough for railroad ties, 

 when one-half of the trees should be cut out. The matter of thinning 

 must depend on growth and other conditions That the larci.. is very 

 durable, there can be no question 



Mr. Hill, ot Dundee,— an old larch-planter from the hills of 

 Scotia, — staled that, in planting this tree, three thousand plants vverc 

 planted to the acre. Plants, planting, and care for three years cost 

 about twenty dollars per acre. One man can plant an acre a day. 

 The plants should be planted very early, before the buds had started; 

 yet it is possible to plant it at a later time in the season. Tlie white 

 grub is the worst enemy of new larch plantations. 



A gentlemen suggested that the skunk would destroy the grub, it 

 permitted to do so, and that this pleasant little animal should not be 

 disturbed. 



Mr. Hill stated that the larch grown in Scotland was almost in- 

 destructible, and was much sought after for railroad ties. Samples of 



