114 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ble for each to test varieties in different localities, and if means are 

 lacking for that purpose, every patriotic citizen will lend a helping 

 hand. 



TWO GOOD FOREST TREES. 



BY G. SEGESSEMAN. 



It is justly lamented that the wealth that lies in our forests is rap- 

 idly diminishing, and that thereby also the climate is severely affected. 

 Not only is the area growing smaller and smaller; but the remaining 

 is also impoverished, the best timber being cut out while invalids and 

 useless trees are left to occupy the ground and rob the others of their 

 share of ground. One acre of cultivated and well cared for forest trees 

 would be worth more than ten acres of the kind we see commonly all 

 around. But it is useless to expect that planting and cultivating tim- 

 ber will take place before it can be shown that there is any profit in it 

 for the planter himself. 



Among others there are especially two kinds of trees that promise 

 a pecuniary remuneration, just as well as if the land had been cropped' 

 with wheat and corn all the while. These are the black walnut and 

 the catalpa. The use of the black walnut tree is well known ; also- 

 that it is slowly disappearing in the old forests while the demand is in- 

 creasing, prices in the world's market having attained a very high rate. 

 To plant them the ground ought to be deeply plowed and prepared as 

 if for corn, and the nuts set as soon as they drop from the tree same 

 distance as corn in the hill, one or two nuts in one hill. Or the rows 

 be made six or seven feet distant and the nuts three feet distant in the 

 row. After planting the land is to be leveled by harrowing. This 

 and the following freezing will cover the track mxire or less till spring 

 time so that the squirrels, the worst enemy, may not so easily find 

 them as when only planted in the spring, when the want of food causes 

 these animals to dig them out one and all. After some years they need 

 thinning out, when two points are to be observed, viz.: that the besfe 



