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is in his opinion a much hardier tree than the osage orange, smaller in growth 

 and not requiring the same amount of labor in trimming. Dr. AVarder and 

 others well informed on the subject pronounce in favor of the jujube tree's 

 adaptability to the purpose recommended. 



FOllESTKY. 



SHELTER BELTS IX ENGLAND. 



Tliat the English people are alive to tlie advantage of protection by trees, 

 is becoming more and more patent year by year. Yet in England the winters 

 are mild and equable. There protection is probably needed against the winds 

 of spring which would tend to cause the fruit to blast. Here we need protec- 

 tion not only in winter and spring but at all times as against the sweeping 

 winds which cause serious damage not only by blowing off and bruising the 

 fruit, but in loosening and straining the trees as well. So also we are glad to 

 notice that the English mind is beginning to see the evil effects of excessive 

 pruning. This has long been known among the best cultivators of the west. 

 The gist of the matter is contained in a short paragraph in the Journal of 

 Horticulture, referring to a communication upon the subject. It says : 



*'In another column Mr. Luckhurst adduces examples showing the impor- 

 tance of shelter for fruit trees. We may add another instance that recently 

 came under our notice of a splendid crop of apples, the result in a great 

 measure of a sheltering belt of forest trees on the north side of the orchard. 

 This fruitful young orchard is at Wimbleton, and belongs to Sir Henry W. 

 Peek. Many of the apple trees are crowded with fruit, and. afford a striking 

 contrast to thousands of trees that are in other places barren. Since so much 

 is written on the pruning of trees it may be mentioned that for two years the 

 trees referred to have not been pruned at all, unless the removal of an occa- 

 sional branch in its entirety can be termed pruning, and the trees are as 

 handsome in form and fruitful in cliaracter as can be desired." — Prairie 

 Farmer, 



THE WESTERN CATALPA TREE. 



So much has been said of late respecting this tree, and so many inquiries 

 are constantly being made as to its deserts, that it seems best thus to present 

 it to your readers in anticipation of a more extended memoir of the Shavanon, 

 which is soon going to the press in a more permanent form. 



This course, it is hoped, will prevent the mistakes that might occur in state- 

 ments made by tliose who have not had such extended opportunities for 

 personal observation as have been afforded the writer within the past few 

 months in the course of travel over three thousand miles of our country, by 

 an extensive correspondence with men of intelligence in twenty different 



