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have grown to a fair size. The larger sree at Kew measure from 
45 to 63 feet in height and are up to 4 feet 4 inches in girth. 
These are growing in poor, sandy ai Under natural conditions 
this tree is found among beech, birch, oak, hickory, black walnut 
and maple. The above-mentioned. circular says that “the blac 
cherry will grow fairly well on dry situations, but it is only 
in the moist well-drained, rich soils of mild climates that the 
maximum development is reached. The tree thrives on bottom 
lands, yet makes a moderate growth on sandy or rocky upland if 
the soil is penetrable.” 
“ The black es is well adapted for mixed planting through- 
out the Middle It serves a useful purpose as a nurse tree 
in forest ee Gee ‘and where luxuriant foliage is desired. In 
general it is too short lived and of too limited economic value to be 
sepemenied for eg WE planting.” 
is recommen at from 4 to 6 feet apart, one year ok 
plants det & being arend to permanent situations 
At the present moment the value of English perry 4 cannot 
be said to hold out any recommendation to planters. s with 
some other kinds of timber, however, the supply ‘for some years 
past has been so small and so irregular that it has ceased to be 
looke d on as a standard wood, and it is quite probable that 
and it would ce sought after. In an anforcatitig article on 
P. serotina, which appeared in “ Woods and Forests ” for January 
Yth, 1884, p. 83, a table of prices in the Boston ees of six of 
the principal American woods employed in cabinet-making is given 
as follows 
£ d, 
Black Walnut ... .. 1512 6 per 1,000 feet. 
White Oak oe we Ee kG 10 39 33 ” 
Cherry eee eee saa ka LUO ” 5) ” 
Butternut ee 1 a8 6S ry 39 3 
White Ash eee ro oS 33 ” 9 
Sugar Maple ... elke 5. 
The Black Locust or False Acacia (Robinia Pseudacacia, L.).— 
Attempts were made a century or more ago to popularize this tree 
in England for commercial purposes, and again in 1823 its merits 
were strongly advocated. Loudon, ‘“ Arboretum et F ruticetum,” i 
gives a considerable amount of information on the subject, and sieht 
that about the latter period one man alone sold 1,000,000 trees for 
the purpose. Unfortunately no records appear to have been ke 5 
of these plantations, and apparently all the information that can 
gleaned about them has to be extracted from short notes which were 
published from time to time in various periodicals, 40 to 60 se 
ago. This evidence is very conflicting, for A. P., Cheam 
in the “Gardeners’ Chronicle” for December 9th, 1843, p. 861, >. 864 
speaks highly of the tree and the durability of its timber. He h 
removed posts from the ground which had been in use for 20 year, 
which did not show a sign of decay. Two seoeree trees p 
by him in 1823 had made very good progress d contained a large 
percentage of heart-wood. On February see 1856, we find him 
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