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difficult to transplant. Chestnut can be successfully transplanted, while 

 young. 



Among our native trees for variety that can be successfully trans- 

 planted, are the Coffee Bean, River Birch, Hackberry, and Linn. 

 Black Walnut and Butternut are the most profitable of all, for grove 

 planting, from the seed. I have not seen it tried ; but judging from 

 nursery culture, I should think the chestnut could be very successfully 

 grown in groves from seed. 



Of the evergreens, all the most common varieties, as the Scotch, 

 Austrian, White, and Ponderosa, or heavy wooded pines, the Norway 

 and White Spruce, and the Hemlock, are desirable. The Balsam Fir 

 is vigorous and easily grown while young; but seems to be short-lived on 

 our prairie soil. 



The intense importance of this subject in affecting the future wealth 

 of the country, should be considered by county and state agricultural 

 societies, and valuable premiums should be offered for the best groves 

 of a certain number of acres, of different varieties of timber, and of 

 specified age to encourage and promote this very important branch of 

 industry. 



Who would not be ambitious to do something for himself, and for 

 future generations in this direction? How many labor and struggle in 

 political life to have their names appear in the history of our country. 

 But here the most humble can with little effort write his name in nature, 

 and hand it down to generations yet unborn, only made brighter and 

 plainer by the hand of time. And then in the future years the children 

 and children's children will hold in high esteem and sacred memory 

 the fathers whose diligent hand planted the grand and beautiful groves 

 which to them are the source of the highest pleasure and their surest 

 wealth. 



Adjourned sine die. 



The next Annual meeting @f the Northern Illinois Horticultural 

 Society will be held in the city of Sterling, Whiteside County, com- 

 mencing on Tuesday, January twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and 

 seventy-four. 



