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development being upon the same side as the greater leaf development, 

 and that this accounted for the fact that so many trees have their hearts 

 nearer one side than the other of their trunks. 



Mr. Bryant had observed straight trees which, when cut into lum- 

 ber, or split, showed curved hearts ; the straightening, he said, resulted 

 from the effort — and a successful one — of nature to straighten the crooked 

 ways of saplings, by causing a larger deposit of wood upon the concave 

 sides of the bending stems. 



Mr. Scofield recommended transplanting young larches early in 

 spring, though he had succeeded well with them when moved a short dis- 

 tance, and without exposure to the roots, after growth had started con- 

 siderably. 



Mr. Galusha, in reply to the question, " How can young plants of 

 larch be best kept overwinter, for spring planting ?" said that success 

 was almost certain if they were buried, root and branch, in a cool cellar, 

 in such a way that all the roots would be in contact with earth. Care 

 must be taken that the temperature in the cellar is kept near the freezing 

 point, else they will start to grow. If the earth freezes a little no harm 

 will be done. 



Mr. Douglas recommended burying them in an out-door root-house, 

 or keeping them in a cold cellar. He said that if the plants were taken 

 up in the fall and kept in damp earth, as cool as possible without freezing, 

 they may be kept till late in the spring. 



Mr. Edwards, from Committee on Forest and Ornamental Trees, 

 reported as follows : 



TIMKER-PLANTING. 



BY SAMUEL EUWARUS, BUREAU COUNTY. 



So much has been said and written with reference to the rapid 

 destruction of forests available for the use of this section of the country, 

 and the need of immediate extensive planting by prairie formers generally, 

 that further argument on these points seems superfluous. Those who are 

 not yet convinced, would not be, "though one rose from the dead." It 

 may, however, in this connection, be proper to state that each year's 

 experience serves to confirm the correctness of estimates heretofore made, 

 with reference to the speedy approach to the time when lumber must 

 command a large advance on present prices. Calculations made within 

 the past year, for the State of Michigan, allow but twelve years more for 

 the clearing of her pine forests. 



When the people at large fully realize the existing condition of the 

 lumber rescources and demands of our country, then, and not till then, 

 may we hope for a general uprising and entering upon this work. Those 

 soonest convinced, first at work, will be the first to receive the reward. 



In this fast age we are too impatient for results, and it is difficult to 

 establish any new industry whi( h does not promise exorbitant profits and 

 speedy returns; so we go plodding along in the "old ruts,'' raising the 

 old routine of crops, in many times at a positive known loss, for years in 



