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to maki; p;ir( nf (lie National ixliihil iiudir tin- 

 auspiros of tilt' (Icpardnont of AirricuUiirc. So 

 far as wv have lu-anl tliis is tlic only American 

 nursery tli:i( ^^'ill !>«' rei)n'siMi(e(l tlure. 11' there 

 are others we will ijladly pnhlisli (hem. The 

 same firm, as already stated.desired to make an 

 oxhiltit of over oii^ht hundred species and varie- 

 ties (tf livinij; trees, but was prevented by the 

 strictness of the French rules. 



Tkee Planting in Minnesota. — !S. 1). 

 Payne planted 100 ,000 trees last year, and ex- 

 pects to have 100 acres in all completed this 

 season. 



A «iO()i) Mi)VE. — The President ^f the 

 Missouri River, Fort Scott, and Gulf U. 11., has 

 made a contract with Messrs. Robert Douglass 

 «& Sons, of WaukcL'an, Illinois, to ,u;row for that 

 road 50,000 lilack AValnut, 75,000 Catalpas, and 

 75,000 Red Cedar seedlings. These trees are to 

 be planted on the company's land, at a point 

 not far from Fort Scott, Kansas. 



Wood of Cer^^us Serotina. — An Illinois 

 correspondent sends us a sketch of astern of this 

 tree w^hicb has made an average growth of three- 

 quarters of an inch a year. The timber ought to 

 very useful for cabinet work ; though we do not 

 think quite equal to the Wild Cherry trees, 

 escapes of the cultivated Cherry which so 

 abound in Pennsylvania. We wish some better 

 name than "Wild J^>lack Cherry" could be given 

 this tree, as it is certain to become confused with 

 these escapes from garden culture. 



The Profit of Forestry. — Judging by the 

 following from an Ehglish contemporary, they 

 do not calculate profits from the same basis that 

 we do : 



"The expenditure upon the Windsor Parks and 

 Woods exceeds the income fiom them by nearly 

 X20,000, the New Forest yields a profit of £1300, 

 the Forest of Dean one of over £6000, the High 

 Meadows Wood over £4000, Alice Holt over 

 £1000, Woolmer Forest and Bere Wood, Hants, 

 nearly a £1000 ; Parkhurst Woods, Isle of Wight, 

 yields a profit of £148 — the total receipts from 

 the Royal Forests, says the Journal of Forestry, 

 being £3?., 129 0^. 8c?., the expenditures £18,519 

 10s, 2.d. Windsor Forest, being entireh' excep- 

 tional, is not included in the foregoing total. 

 Like our contemporary, we have no doubt that 

 the revenue from the Crown Woods might, in 

 course of time, be very materially increased, 

 while the expenditure on Windsor Forest might 



prol»ably be diminished, and tiie income in- 

 creased without diminishing the beauty of the 

 forest, (he comfort of the Sovei'eign. or the ])lea- 

 sure .if her snl)jeets,'' 



In our country the income over expenditure 

 in any one year would not be considered " pro- 

 fit." AVe should wan( (o kiutw how much ex- 

 pendKure of capital and labor (here had been for 

 years jirevious ; and we should perhaps want to 

 charge six percent, against all (his outlay, tliat 

 had for so man}' years brf)nu;ht in nothin;;. 

 befoi-e calculating what the profits were. It 

 seems to us that a full grown forest might yield 

 in one year twenty times the expenditures of 

 that 5'ear, and still the forest not to be a very 

 profitable investment. 



Forestry will pay, — well managed aiul rightly 

 located, it will pay handsomely ; but here, as in 

 the meteorological aspects of the case, it is best 

 to guard people from planting under misappre- 

 hensions. No cause is permanently successful 

 that does not stand on a solid body of facts. 



Catai.1'A TiMBEJt. — When a few years ago 

 the Gardener's Monthly called attention to 

 the fact that the Cattilpa was one of the most 

 rapid growing trees as well as giving very dur- 

 able timber, planters were very incredulous. 

 Since then facts Ixave come to light showing it to 

 be even more valuable than we supposed. 

 We take the following from the proceedings of 

 the Mont. Co. (O.) Horticultural Society: 



'■Prof. F. J. Rurrill writes : From the experi- 

 ments so far at the Illhiois Industrial I'niversit}'. 

 the catalpa is oneof the cheapest, and easiest to 

 grow, and one of the most rapidly growing of 

 our forest trees, native or introduced. In one 

 plantation, containing about twenty selected 

 species, only the soft maple and white willow 

 have in eight years time surpassed it. It has out- 

 grown the White or American Elm, White Ash, 

 European Larch, Osage Orange, Black Walnut, 

 &c., upon the same ground, and under the same 

 treatment. It is not attacked by any insect, nor 

 does it appear to be subject to any disease what- 

 ever. Our trees were raised from seed planted 

 in the spring of 1869, and were transplanted in 

 1871. When reset the tops were cut to the 

 ground, because they were crooked and much 

 branched, and were set two feet by four feet to 

 induce erect growth, cultivated like corn three 

 I years, and plowed once each of the two follow- 

 ing years, since which time nothing has been 

 done to them except a very little pruning. Next 



