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trees, in common with all others of the same kind in this part of the 

 nursery, had suffered very severely by root-killing not one of these 

 seedlings showed the least injury, and all made a fair growth the 

 past season. This is surely very good evidence of the great root- 

 hardiness of the pure pyrus baccata. 



"Scions of Prof. Green's type of this species, top-worked on 

 several worthless varieties of apple four years ago have fruited quite 

 generally with us the past season." 



Mr. Wedge's reference to Prof. Green's type of this species 

 means trees received from Arnold Arboretum, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, which originally came from the Imperial Botanic Gardens 

 at St. Petersburg, Russia, and then again originally from Siberia. 

 The source of the old Yellow Siberian and Cherry crabs it would 

 be difficult to trace at this time, but the Botanic Gardens at St. Peters- 

 burg must be credited with all or nearly all the early importations 

 from Siberia. The pyrus baccata trees I noticed in these gardens 

 while in St. Petersburg in 1897 varied greatly in size of fruit and 

 other characteristics. 



INFLUENCE OF THE CHIPPEWA FOREST RESERVE 

 ON THE LOCALITY. 



HERMAN H. CHAPMAN, GRAND RAPIDS. 



Supt. of North East Experiment Farm. 

 (Delivered before the American Forestry Association at Minne- 

 apolis, Minn., August 25, 1903.) 



The Morris Bill has set aside 225,000 acres of land in the 

 Chippewa Reservation for a forest reserve. The questions raised 

 as to the advisability of such action hinge largely on a single 

 point, is the land agricultural or not? The writer does not claim 

 absolute authority on this point, but having been engaged since 

 1898 in studying the subject in connection with the work of the 

 State Experiment Farm at Grand Rapids he may safely hazard 

 an opinion, which may be taken as being free from prejudice and 

 perhaps as worthy of acceptance as that of those whose ideas 

 might be influenced by their personal interests. 



Agricultural land is land the quality or location of which is 

 such that the farmers can clear and operate it with profit, i. e., 

 make a living on it. The personality of the farmer must first be 

 eliminated from the discussion. Perhaps not one in three farm- 

 ers of today could start in on a timbered farm, no matter how 

 good the soil, and succeed at all. Some classes of foreigners can 

 make a living on a prospect much poorer than an American could 



