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Horse Chestnuts. The variet}' from Kansas is particularly 

 hardy and so far as known has never injured in fifteen or twenty 

 years. This variety does not grow very large, but it is in every 

 way well worth planting. The nuts should be kept moist, and left 

 out and covered with leaves ; they start to grow early in the spring 

 and should be planted as soon as the frost is out sufficiently. The 

 best way to grow nut trees is to have the ground plowed in the 

 fall and the nuts planted about an inch deep, so that they can have 

 all the favorable conditions that result from fall planting ; planted 

 in the spring the soil removed dries out, and the conditions are not 

 so favorable as in the fall planting. 



The Ohio Buckeye is a much larger tree than the Kansas vari- 

 ety, and it has been growing here without injury for some years. 



The Green Ash should be more planted than it is ; being a na- 

 tive it is perfectly hardy. The zuhitc ash is somewhat tender, but 

 from northern sections might be hardy. 



Basswood, or Linden. This tree is always well worth planting. 

 If anything, it is even more hardy than the elm and not so liable to 

 have the limbs broken by wind ; also it is not such a nuisance as the 

 elm from growing so many trees from the seed. 



Elm. Where no other tree can be grown it is well to plant the 

 elm, but it is not desirable on cultivated land, on account of the 

 extra work needed to keep down the trees produced by the many 

 seeds spread by the winds. An elm planted in 1855 is now nine 

 feet in circumference, with a spread of limbs fifty to sixty feet. 



Rock Elm is of very slow growth. 



Cottonzwod planted in 1861 are now over eight and nine feet 

 in circumference, probably eighty feet or more high. The elm and 

 Cottonwood seem to have vitality enough not to be injured by light- 

 ning. The large elm was struck in 1875, the bark for ten feet from 

 the oTound and nearlv a foot wide, was stripped ofif, but it is now 

 entirely healed over. 



The Beech has now been through four winters and not injured, 

 and it might be recommended for moist locations to the careful 

 grower. 



Birch. The European cut-leaved birch is one of the most beau- 

 tiful trees grown in the state. There is much complaint of it be- 

 ing a sHort-Jived tree, but in a fairly good soil with cultivarion 

 and fertilizing the tree can be depended on for many years. In 

 many of the cities the top soil is often moved off in the grading. 



