1883.] 



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notion might carry the day if the two plans were 

 fairly tried side by side with each other. 



But the whole matter shows how much there is 

 to learn before forestry planting will yield all the 

 rapid profit it is capable of doing. 



Pines of Mount Deskrt IsL.\Nn. — A lady 

 kindly sends us cones of the pines growing in 

 that part of the country. They prove to be the 

 common white pine, and the " yellow " or " spruce" 

 pine, Pinus mitis. 



The " Hardy " Catalpa. — We have often ob- 

 jected to this name, because it implies that the 

 Eastern species is " tender," while everybody 

 knows that there are large timber trees in the East 

 over a hundred years old, many of which must 

 often have experienced a temperature of perhaps 20° 

 or 30° below zero. Whenever we have suggested 

 this, the answer has been that the Eastern Catalpa 

 dies back when young, or loses its leader and 

 hence is apt to make a more or less . crooked 

 trunk, and that the Western one never does. This 

 has been one of its leading recommendations. We 

 have had some doubt about this difference to any 

 material extent, but have had to take the positive 

 statements as they have been given us. Mr. H. 

 C. Raymond, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, now writes 

 to the Iowa Homestead that in the north half of 

 the State the young trees will be often killed back 

 but will recover and increase in hardiness with 

 age. 



This is precisely the character of the Eastern 

 form. We are inclined to the opinion expressed 

 in the beginning of the Catalpa enthusiasm, that 

 while there is no doubt of the essential distinct- 



ness of the two species for forestry purposes, 

 planters will not go far wrong in having a valuable 

 timber tree, by selecting either one. Its value is 

 chiefly in timber for posts and railroad ties ; but 

 planters should remember that the future of for- 

 estry will require other species of wood as well as 

 Catalpa wood. 



A Public Forest in the State of New 

 York. — Senator Frederick Lansing's bill forbid- 

 ding the sale of 660,000 acres owned by the State 

 in the Adirondack region, was passed by a vote of 

 24 to 5, January 23d. It is a good indication of 

 increasing public appreciation of the need of pre- 

 serving the wooded character of that part of the 

 State. The timber there, if cut at all, should be 

 cut only under rigid control, and with the most 

 careful provisions for immediate rewooding of the 

 cleared ground. So well says one of our ex- 

 changes. 



MORUS multicaulis. — This large, broad-leaved 

 variety of the Morus alba was introduced by Perot- 

 tet from the Philippine Islands to France in 1824. 

 It was soon after introduced into the United States 

 and used largely in the early experiments with 

 silk culture. In consequence of disease it has al- 

 most disappeared from cultivation. One of the 

 last to survive was on the ground of Mr. Samuel 

 Chew, on the old battle ground of Germantown, 

 but it has recently been cut down. It had become 

 a very large tree. 



Amount of Tannin in the Bark of Some 

 OF the Trees in the United States. — United 

 States Forestry Bulletin, No. 24, C. S. Sargent, 

 Special Agent in charge, gives the following : 



botanical namk. 



Gordonia Lasianthus 



Prosopis juliflora 



Rhizopliora mangle 



Exostenima Caribyeiim 



Qnercus :ilba 



inacrocarpa 



Prirrns 



Mulilenbergii, old tree. . . 

 Mulilenbergii, young tree 



vil■en^; 



Kmoryi 



rubra" 



tinotoria 



Kelloggii 



fakata 



nigra 



densiflora 



Castanea vulgaiis, var. Americana 



Picea nigra 



Engelmanni 



Engelmanni 



Engelmanni 



Tsuga Canadensis 



Mertensiana 



Mertensiana 



Pattoniana 



Pseudotsuga Douglasii 



COMMON NAME. 



REGION. 



Ivoblollv Bav. Red Bay Southern Atlantic . . . . 



Mesquit. Aigaroba 1 Mexican Boundary . . . . 



Mangrove Gulf Coast 



Semi-tropical Florida. 



White Oak Atlantic 



Burr Oak, White Oak " 



Chestnut Oak Southern Atlantic 



Chesnut Oak, Yellow Oak Atlantic 



Live Oak Southern Atlantic . . 



Black Oak Mexican Boundary. 



Red Oak Atlantic 



Black Oak, Quercitron Oak " 



Black Oak i Pacific Coast 



Spanish Oak Southern Atlantic . . 



Black .lack. Barren Oak Atlantic 



Tanbark Oak, Chestnut Oak Pacific Coast 



Chestnut Atlantic 



Black Spruce, Red Spruce Northern Atlantic . . 



Interior Pacific 



Hemlock I Northern Atlantic. 



" I Northern Pacific. . . 



Red Fir. Yellow Fir Pacific 



Percent- 

 age of 

 Tannin. 



1:1. 14 

 4.04 

 .•U .04 

 .5.81 

 u.i)!l 

 4. .50 

 6.25 

 4 38 

 10. :« 

 10.46 

 9.70 

 4..5C 

 5.(10 

 6.7(i 

 8. .50 

 4..SC 

 16.46 

 6.25 I 

 7.20 I 

 20., 56 

 17.01 

 12.60 I 

 13.11 I 

 14.42 

 15.87 

 15.72 

 13.70 



Percent- 

 age of 

 Ash. 



2.35 

 8.71 

 6.70 

 7.16 

 (i.ll 

 8.05 

 3.83 

 8.38 

 6.23 

 8.89 

 15.09 

 4.43 

 5.73 

 8.64 

 4.32 

 6.28 

 .3.84 

 2.00 

 2.84 

 2.75 

 2.32 

 0.7.5 

 1.31 

 1.44 

 1.49 

 2.48 

 I. .56 



