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the satisfaction of believing that you have done and are 

 doing something to increase the wealth, happiness, and pros- 

 perity of the people of our beloved Commonwealth. 



On motion of Major Phinney it was unanimously 

 Voted, That the thanks of the Board be presented to Col. 

 WiLDEE, for the highly interesting facts in regard to the 

 history and the operations of the Board for the last quarter of 

 a century. 



Major Phtetney then reported upon the Marshfield Society ; 

 Mr. MiLO J. Smith, upon the Worcester West ; Mr. Chad- 

 BOUEXE, upon the Hingham; Mr. Had wen, upon the Bristol ; 

 Mr. Knowlton, upon the Martha's Vineyard; and Mr. 

 Bagg, upon the Worcester. 



Professor Sargent submitted the following : — 



NOTES ON trees AND TREE-PLANTING. 



BY" C. S. SAKGENT, 



Director of the Botanic Garden and Arboretum of Harvard University. 



The following remarks may be considered as supplemen- 

 tary to a paper ^ contributed by me to the Report of the Board 

 of Agriculture for the year 1875. They are the result of 

 investigations made since the publication of that paper, and 

 undertaken in the hope of adding to the short list of trees 

 from which planters on the barren soil and in the severe 

 climate of New England must select their material for 

 profitable sylviculture. 



The value for New-England plantations of the white ash, 

 white and Scotch pines, European elm, white oak, the hicko- 

 ries, white willow, sugar-maple, and European larch, has 

 already been considered ; with these may perhaps be ad- 

 vantageously associated the following native and foreign 

 trees : — 



The Red, or Norway Pine (Pinus resinosa, Ait). 



A native of the Northern United States, from the Atlantic 

 to beyond the Great Lakes, and from the mountains of Penn- 

 sylvania to the shores of Hudson's Bay, the red pine, 

 though found growing in several localities in Massachusetts, 



1 A Few Suggestions on Tree-Planting. 



