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dows, doors, etc. It is used also for furniture. I think the price of good chestnut lumber 

 has been about $25 a thousand. 



Mr. Bucke. — I have been trying to grow chestnuts in Ottawa for a number of years, 

 but instead of the trees growing up they are going up all the time. I cannot grow them 

 there ; it is too cold for them. It is a very pretty tree, and I wanted to grow it for an 

 ornamental tree. The wood is highly ornamental for furniture. 



Mr. Arnold. — I would say chestnut trees were profitable where they would succeed. 

 I know a fair-sized tree will yield a good many bushels of nuts. We can scarcely grow 

 chestnuts in my section of the country. They cannot be grown north of the Grand Trunk 

 Railway. They grow a few miles south of me. 



Mr. Page. — I have lived in the chestnut country all my life, in the County of Wel- 

 land. The trees grow very freely. I have seen in cutting down forests abounding in 

 chestnut trees, that where we would cut down one chestnut tree five or six more wonld 

 grow up around it. I have cut all these down to one stock and let that grow, but I have 

 never been able to get many nuts off that tree in ten years. A chestnut tree will hardly 

 bear short of fifteen years. I have seen chestnut trees bear from four to six bushels of 

 chestnuts, but it takes a pretty large tree to do that. With us it is one of the most valu- 

 able timbers we have. 



Mr. Gott. — In answer to this question I would say "yes." The tree is an ornament 

 to any country. Its fruit is very respectable, and always commands respect. It will 

 bring in our market about $4 per bushel. The young trees will usually commence to bear 

 in favourable locations at the age of from seven to ten years, and go on increasing more 

 and more until they attain their full size. The timber is valuable for a variety of pur- 

 poses, both indoors and out. 



Mr. Honsberger. — I would say as to the nut-bearing qualities of the tree "no," but 

 as to the timber qualities " yes." Although the nuts are very acceptable to people gener- 

 ally, yet they are very indigestible, and consequently useless, in my estimation, as food. 

 I was brought up in a chestnut country, and gathered many a bushel of the nuts, but 

 for the last three or four years I do not think I have eaten that many chestnuts, because 

 I find them very injurious to me as food. But I prize the lumber very highly as being 

 equal, if not superior, to the black walnut. I think that for the timber it would be very 

 profitable to grow. 



ROADSIDE TREES. 



The next topic was " What are the best trees for country roadside planting 1 " 



Mr. Beadle. — I would suggest that one of the prettiest trees for country roadside 

 planting is the rock elm. Of course the roads must not be too narrow where those trees 

 are planted, or the trees be planted too thickly, because they will shade quite a space. I 

 would also mention besides that our own white ash. If the trees should happen to be 

 planted too thickly, so that it will be necessary to take some of them out, the wood will 

 be worth all that the trees have cost. 



Mr. Bucke. — I would suggest the black walnut, providing it is planted in great 

 number, so that the boys shall not break them all down to get the nuts ; also the maple. 

 In fact, excepting the soft wood trees, I do not know of any tree that would not be suit- 

 able for a roadside tree. 



Mr. Honsberger. — T like for a country roadside tree the Norway spruce, and then 

 between them, at a nice distance for a walk, plant the soft maple. 



Mr Bucke. — I think the Norway spruce would be apt to make drifts in the winter 

 time, if there should be much snow. 



Mr. Honsberger. — A person would naturally think so, but I can say that I am very 

 fortunately disappointed in that myself. I have planted them by the roadside, both run- 

 ning north and south, and running east and west, and they are not liable to cause the 

 snow to drift. 



