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Ked Birch, Betula nigra, 



Swamp Birch, White 



Birch, Betula alba, variety. 



Cherry Birch, Black 



Birch, • Betula lenta. 



Black Willow, Salix nigra. 



American Aspen, Populus tremuloides. 



Long toothed Aspen, Populus grandidentata. 

 Downy Poplar, Cotton- 

 wood, Populus heterophylla. 

 Loblolly Pine, Old field 



Pine, Pinus Taeda. 



Pitch Pine, Pinus rigida. 



Jersey Pine, Scrub Pine, Pinus inops. 

 Yellow Pine, Pinus mitis. 



Hemlock, Abies Canadensis. 



White Cedar, Cupressus thyoides. 



Cypress, Taxodium distichum. 



Red Cedar, Juniperus Virginiana. 



Respectfully, 



Wm. M. Canby. 

 [Our readers will remember the criticism we 

 made on Delaware trees. Since then Mr. Carftjy 

 has contributed the above to the Commercial, and 

 we are pleased to be able to add that the Com- 

 mission has had the good judgment to avail 

 itself of Mr. Canby's knowledge in getting the 

 Delaware wood together. — Ed. G. M.] 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



I^URSERYMEN AKD TrEE PLANTERS. — There will 



be held at the Palmer House, in Chicago, on the 

 second Wednesday in June next, a meeting of 

 the nurserymen of the Northwest, for the pur- 

 pose of organizing a nurserymen's association. 

 Dr. Ennis, of Clinton, Iowa, will preside, and J. 

 Wilmot Scott, of Galena, will act as secre- 

 tary. The object of the association will be to 

 promote the general welfare of the tree-growing 

 interest. 



Abies Menziesii. — The fine specimens of Ab- 

 bies Engelmanni, noted in our Magazine three 

 years ago, as growing on the grounds of Mr. 

 Gray of Boston, proves to be the Abies Men- 

 ziesii. The seed was from Colorado. It is on the 

 strength of these specimens that the idea has 

 started that the Colorado plant is much better 

 for Eastern culture than those from the Pacific 

 coaat, and if all the plants from Colorado seed 

 are to be like these, we heartily endorse the idea. 



Prizes for Tree Planting. — We call the par- 

 'ticular attention of our readers to the schedule of 

 premiums for tree planting issued by the Massa- 

 chusetts Society for the Promotion of Agricul- 

 ture. Tree culture can be made a success. It 

 only needs a few examples to illustrate it. Such 

 example premiums of $1000 and $600 ought to 

 bring forth. Schedules can be had of E. N. Per- 

 kins, Jamaica Plain, Mass., up to December Ist, 

 1876. Prof. Sargent's essay is distributed with 

 the Schedule. 



Substitutes for Wood. — What shall we do 

 when the forests are no more, and the coal all 

 used up ? This is a question which those who 

 look many centuries ahead, are continually ask- 

 ing themselves. Some reply, Providence will take 

 care of us, something will be invented when the 

 time for it comes. Already they are preparing 

 for this good time. By a chemical process and 

 great pressure, paper can be made equal to 

 wood, and paper buckets are already a "fixed 

 fact." 



The American Forestry Association was or- 

 ganized at Chicago, Illinois, on the 10th of Sep- 

 tember, 1875, by the election of John A. Warder, 

 of Ohio, President, and H. H. McAfee, of Iowa, 

 Secretary. The objects of the Society are mutual 

 improvement in the art, the diffusion of infor- 

 mation upon the subject of Forestry, and the fos- 

 tering of all interests of forest-planting and con- 

 servation on this continent. 

 The following gentlemen were appointed a Committee 



on correspondence and statistics, with J. T. Allan, 



of Nebraska, Chairman : 



J. T. Allan, Chairman, Omaha, Neb. 



W. H. Brewer, New Haven, Conn. 



Bernard Fox, San Jose, Cal. 



Wm. M. Byers, Denver, Col. 



Jno. Saul, Washington, D. C. 



P. J. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 



A. G. Humphreys, Galesburg, El. 



W. C. Flagg, Moro, 111. 



J. C. Ratliff", Richmond, Ind. 



J. Hussey, Lafayette, Ind. " 



C. E. Whiting, Whiting, Monona Co., Iowa. 



G. B. Brackett, Denmark, Iowa. 



J. L. Budd, Shellsburg, Iowa. 



E. Gale, Manhattan, Kan. 



Jas. Truitt, Quincy, Ky. 



Geo. B. Sawyer, Wiscasset, Me. 



Wm. T. Breckenridge, Baltimore, Md. 



G. Emerson, Boston, Mass. 



T. T. Lyon, South Haven, Mich. 



