1882. 



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chap, xiii., offers a bonns of $12 per acre to any 

 one wlio will plant an acre of ground with trees 

 and keep it well preserved. And no person is 

 permitted to clear land by fire between July 1st 

 and September 1st. It is aU)0 SHid an ''arbor 

 day" is to be instituted by the Dominion gov- 

 ernment. 



Frame Buildings in Cities —Geo. May Powell 

 suggests that shingle roofs and frame buildings 

 should not be tolerated in closely built-up towns, 

 and that this would, in some measure, lessen the 

 demand on our forestry supplies. 



Forests of the Wabash Valley.— Mr. Robert 

 Ridgway says that in the Wabash Valley there 

 are found no less than thirty- four species of large 

 timber trees — that is to say, trees which some- 

 times reach 100 feet high. 



Insect Borers in the Yellow Locust. — It 

 eeems there is not a portion of the American 

 Continent — at least in the Atlantic portion 

 where the yellow locust is free from the borer. 

 In Canada it seems as bad as further soutn, judg 

 ing from a remark by Dr. Beadle in the Forestry 

 Congress at Montreal, who said that the town ol 

 St. Catharines at one time had so many locust 

 trees that people could feel their perfume even 

 while approaching the town from a distance, 

 but he did not think they could find a dozen 

 now, as they had been destroyed by the borers 

 and other insects. 



Forestry in Canada. — Among the number of 

 very interesting papers at the Forestry Congress 

 was one by Mr. Marler, of Montreal, on the denu- 



dation of forest lands. In the course of his re- 

 marks he said that the Province of Quebec is the 

 principal territory from whence the mercantile 

 lumber is drawn. " When I say mercantile lum- 

 ber I speak of those trees which make up the 

 lumber trade, and are taken from the following 

 list: Oak, Elm, Ash, Birch, Walnut, Butternut, 

 Hickory, Iron Wood, Maple, Basswood, White 

 Birch, Beech, Poplar, Cherry, Balm of Gilead, 

 Plane tree, Willow, Pine, Spruce, Larch, Cedar, 

 Balsam, Hemlock. 



"There are two large belts of timber land in the 

 Province of Quebec, one on the south side of the 

 St Lawrence, the other and greater on the north 

 side. The first extending from Gaspe, the Bay 

 des Chaleurs, which divides it from New Bruns- 

 wick ; thence along the high lands on the bound- 

 ary line until it strikes the head waters of the 

 Connecticut river ; thence along the line of 45° 

 of north latitude to the St. Lawrence, by which 

 it is bounded in front. This belt consists of 

 about 30,000 square miles. The other from be- 

 low the Saguenay to the Ottawa, and thence two 

 hundred miles north of the St. Lawrence, and 

 consists of about 120,000 square miles. 



" Until a few years back these great belts of 

 timber land were reached only by the streams 

 running through them, and could only be de- 

 vastated by the lumberman a few miles each 

 side of these rivers, leaving large spaces un- 

 touched by the woodman's axe. But since 

 twenty years this great belt has been intersected 

 by some dozen railroads, which are now work- 

 ing into these reserves." 



Natural History and Science. 



COMMUNICA TIONS. 



CALADIUM ESCULENTUWI.-NYMPH/EA 

 AMPLA. 



BY PROF. S. B. BUCKLEY, AUSTIN, TEXAS. 



It is supposed by many that the Caladium 

 eeculentum is a native of South-western Texas, 

 from its abundance in and around the head- 

 waters of the San Antonio, Comal and San 

 Marcos rivers. 



Lately, when at New Braunfels, I asked an 



intelligent man — who had lived in that region 

 about thirty years— if the Caladium was there 

 indigenous. He said not; that he remembered 

 when it was first planted at New Braunfels 

 nearly thirty years ago, from whence it had 

 spread by being transplanted at other places. 

 It is a native of tropical and semi tropical 

 America. Last spring I saw it growing in>the 

 Lampazas springs of Mexico, about seventy five 

 miles south west of Laredo. 

 In the Lampazas springs also grows the water 



